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Antic   /ˈæntɪk/   Listen
noun
Antic  n.  
1.
A buffoon or merry-andrew; one that practices odd gesticulations; the Fool of the old play.
2.
An odd imagery, device, or tracery; a fantastic figure. "Woven with antics and wild imagery."
3.
A grotesque trick; a piece of buffoonery; a caper. "And fraught with antics as the Indian bird That writhes and chatters in her wiry cage."
4.
(Arch.) A grotesque representation. (Obs.)
5.
An antimask. (Obs. or R.) "Performed by knights and ladies of his court In nature of an antic."


adjective
Antic  adj.  
1.
Old; antique. (Zool.) "Lords of antic fame."
2.
Odd; fantastic; fanciful; grotesque; ludicrous. "The antic postures of a merry-andrew." "The Saxons... worshiped many idols, barbarous in name, some monstrous, all antic for shape."


verb
Antic  v. t.  (past & past part. anticked; pres. part. anticking)  To make appear like a buffoon. (Obs.)


Antic  v. i.  (past & past part. anticked; pres. part. anticking)  To perform antics.





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"Antic" Quotes from Famous Books



... rather go to the poor-farm and done with it than resk her life there another night; and she'd like to know what had become of that hunderd dollars her nephew Thomas paid down in bills to get her into the Home, for she'd be thankful to them that laid it away so antic to hand it back afore another night went over her head, so't she could board somewheres decent till 'twas gone, and then ...
— Meadow Grass - Tales of New England Life • Alice Brown
... notice that since dinner her mental processes had undergone some subtle change. For one thing, her sense of humor had quickened. Joe had often maintained she had none. If Joe could see her now! No; that was not her meaning precisely; but at any rate, it had quickened. How every antic of the comedians appealed to her! The excessively tall and the excessively short Germans who talked into one another's teeth; the young person who sang coon songs in a fashion not negro, but all her own; the ...
— The Henchman • Mark Lee Luther
... decorous dulness. They maintain their dignity; they get obeyed; they are good and charitable to their dependants. But they have no notion of PLAY of mind: no conception that the charm of society depends upon it. They think cleverness an antic, and have a constant though needless horror of being thought to have any of it. So much does this stiff dignity give the tone, that the few Englishmen capable of social brilliancy mostly secrete it. ...
— The English Constitution • Walter Bagehot
... and Time itself doth drowse; The little stream, too indolent to pass, Loiters below the cloudy willow boughs, That build amid the glare a shadowy house, And with a Paradisal freshness brims Amid cool-rooted reeds with glossy blade; The antic water-fly above it skims, And cows stand shadow-like in the green shade, Or knee-deep in the ...
— A Jongleur Strayed - Verses on Love and Other Matters Sacred and Profane • Richard Le Gallienne
... have wondered that some of my comrades did not recognize in me the stray sheep that was cried; but they were all, no doubt, occupied by their own concerns. They were all laboring seriously in their antic vocations, for folly was a mere trade with the most of them, and they often grinned and capered with heavy hearts. With me, on the contrary, it was all real. I acted con amore, and rattled and laughed from the irrepressible ...
— Tales of a Traveller • Washington Irving


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