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an·ti·quate  (nt-kwt)
tr.v. an·ti·quat·ed, an·ti·quat·ing, an·ti·quates
1. To make obsolete or old-fashioned.
2. To antique.

[Late Latin antqure, antqut-, to make old, from Latin, to leave in an old state, from antquus, old; see antique.]

anti·quation n.

antiquation
the process of making antiquated or the condition of being antiquated.
See also: Age


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17) In other words, the very mindset that produced imperial hegemony--the confidence in reason, disciplined deployment of technoscience, and posture of mastery--has eroded, replaced by a deracinated fatalism and an almost mystical embrace of its own antiquation.
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