There is no fond antiquarianism; all the old Latin inscriptions and bas-reliefs that have been found have been mortared together at random into one wall; all the human bones that have been unearthed, and they are many, have been thrown unceremoniously into an open box.

His genealogy is, therefore, a matter of no idle antiquarianism.

For example, instead of saying: The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold, you diverted attention from your acting by an appeal to the literary antiquarianism of your audience, and, out of one or other of the quartos, read the line:

Thus he was drawn by circumstances to devote a good deal of time, more than he intended, to the mere antiquarianism of Rome.

By degrees we come down, through Saxons and Normans, to that work which was peculiarly Camden's, the topographical antiquarianism.