Antiquity

pl. Antiquities

1. The quality of being ancient; ancientness; great age; as, a statue of remarkable antiquity; a family of great antiquity.
2. Old age. [Obs.]

   It not your voice broken? . . . and every part about you blasted with antiquity?

3. Ancient times; former ages; times long since past; as, Cicero was an eloquent orator of antiquity.
4. The ancients; the people of ancient times.

   That such pillars were raised by Seth all antiquity has vowed.

5. An old gentleman. [Obs.]

   You are a shrewd antiquity, neighbor Clench.

6. A relic or monument of ancient times; as, a coin, a statue, etc.; an ancient institution. [In this sense, usually in the plural.]