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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A treatise on antiquity; a description of antiquities in general, or of any particular branch or series.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A description of, or a treatise on, antiquity or antiquities.
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- noun Discipline for publishing
treatises of anyantiquity or antiquities.
Etymologies
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Formed as archæ- + -o- + -graphy, after the Ancient Greek ἀρχαιογράφος (arkhaiographos, "the writing of antiquities").
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