To make something antiquarian in character or to study something with the methods and interests of an antiquarian.
From antiquarian (lover of old things, from Latin antiquarius) plus the suffix -ize (to cause to be or become). Developed in English around the 18th-19th centuries as antiquarianism became a more formalized scholarly pursuit.
This word captures a specific intellectual transformation—the idea of taking something ordinary and seeing it through the obsessive, detail-oriented lens of someone who loves old things. It's what happens when historians turn casual collectors into scholars.
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