antick

antick

(ˈæntɪk) or

anticke

n
old-fashioned antic
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Chippendale even worked to Adam's designs when he made a suite of sofas and armchairs, 'Richly Carv'd in the Antick manner', for Sir Lawrence Dundas --the only known instance of Chippendale executing someone else's design (Fig.
(139) The trend reached its peak (or nadir) in 1975, when the court reversed the murder conviction of Frank Antick in part because the trial court had allowed the jury to learn of Antick's 1955 and 1957 forgery convictions.
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(35) By contrast, the devils Astaroth and Belchar offer 'a horne-pipe [to] treade' in act 5 of The Devil's Charter (first performed 1606, published 1607) but the stage directions indicate that 'They dance an antick', that is, presumably, a more stylized dance appropriate for an antimasque (L2v).
The first song, after act 1, is followed by an "Antick dance of Gypsies." After act 3, when Pompey's ghost sings to the sleeping Cornelia, there is "a Military Dance, as the continuance of her Dream." Following the final song "a Grand Masque is Danc'd before Caesar and Cleopatra." The stage direction for the final masque notes that it was "made (as well as the other Dances and the Tunes to them) by Mr.
When questioning for alcohol or drug use, it is helpful to begin with general questions about behaviors consistent with problematic substance use such as the following (Antick & Goodale, 2003):
For my part, while you are under my Roof, I will never suffer you to wear foolish and antick Garbs and Fashions: 'Tis a shame that Parents professing Godliness, should be allured by the Devil to please their Childrens natural and pernicious Appetites; by which means, they become Slaves to Lucifer, by sending their little Daughters to School to learn to dance....