0 connected with the trade, collection, or study of old and valuable or rare objects:
an antiquarian bookshop/bookseller
1 a person who studies or collects old and valuable or rare objects
To all antiquarians these forests are of particular interest.
I am not in any way condemning the study of the language by scholars or antiquarians.
Mostly they came on foot, many were antiquarians; most of them were to some extent countrymen, and they behaved accordingly.
Nineteenth century and earlier antiquarians made sporadic finds without worrying unduly about the precise context of the stratigraphy.
On the other hand, there seems to be no necessity to encourage mere cranks or antiquarians to look up the list of the local authority without making some payment.
I rather resent the suggestion that antiquarians are cranks and that they should be required to pay for the inspection of documents more than 10 years old.
Eventually antiquarians (from the 17th century) and folklorists (from the 19th) began to take notice of holy wells and record their surviving traditions.
Antiquarians and historians have been interested in the ditch since the 19th century, but much of its course has been built over.
