| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.172 | To put an antic disposition on – | To put an Anticke disposition on:) |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.60 | the rusty curb of old Father Antic the law? Do not thou | the rustie curbe of old Father Anticke the Law? Doe not thou |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vii.18 | Thou antic Death, which laughest us here to scorn, | Thou antique Death, which laugh'st vs here to scorn, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.106 | delightful ostentation, or show, or pageant, or antic, or | delightfull ostentation, or show, or pageant, or anticke, or |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.140 | We will have, if this fadge not, an antic. I | We will haue, if this fadge not, an Antique. I |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.129 | While you perform your antic round, | While you performe your Antique round: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.63 | If black, why, Nature, drawing of an antic, | If blacke, why Nature drawing of an anticke, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.162 | Keeps death his court; and there the antic sits, | Keepes Death his Court, and there the Antique sits |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.56 | Come hither, covered with an antic face, | Come hither couer'd with an antique face, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.28 | The pox of such antic, lisping, affecting | The Pox of such antique lisping affecting |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.99 | Were he the veriest antic in the world. | Were he the veriest anticke in the world. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.75 | And all we'll dance an antic 'fore the Duke, | And all wee'l daunce an Antique fore the Duke, |
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| against | in preparation for, in anticipation of |
| against | in anticipation of the time when |
| antic, antick(e), antique | ancient, olden, former |
| antic, antick(e), antique | bizarre dance, fantastic spectacle, grotesque entertainment |
| antic, antick(e), antique | grotesque figure, grinning jester, buffoon |
| antic, antick(e), antique | old-fashioned, old-world, antiquated |
| antic, antick(e), antique | make grotesque figure of, make fools of |
| antic, antick(e), antique | fantastic, bizarre, weird |
| anticly, antiquely | grotesquely, like a buffoon, in an antic manner |
| await | expect, anticipate, look out for |
| bedlam | mad, crazed, frantic |
| brainsick, brain-sick | mad, foolish, frantic |
| cap-and-knee | sycophantic, flattering, obsequious |
| Chanticleer | cock, rooster [in the medieval story of Reynard the Fox, retold in Chaucer's ‘The Nun's Priest's Tale’] |
| Cophetua | [pron: ko'fetjua] African king of a romantic ballad, who fell in love with a beggar-girl, Zenelophon |
| dread | fear, anticipate in fear, be anxious about |
| expect | expectation, anticipation |
| expectance | expectant state, watchful anticipation |
| expectation | anticipation, hopefulness |
| forethink | anticipate, foresee, predict |
| frantic | mad, insane, frenzied, out of one's senses |
| friskin | antic, friskiness, playful action |
| gambol | leap, caper, antic |
| go | anticipate, forestall |
| hope | expect, anticipate, envisage |
| hopeful | hoped-for, anticipated |
| inkhorn | pedantic, book-scribbling |
| level | guess correctly, rightly anticipate |
| look | expect, hope for, anticipate |
| look | expect, anticipate, hope, await the time |
| mistrust | suspect the existence of, apprehend, anticipate |
| pedantical | pedantic, exaggerated, artificial |
| prevent | forestall, anticipate |
| prevent | anticipate, expect, look ahead to |
| project | anticipation, speculation, prospect |
| sing | anticipate trouble, see storm-clouds brewing |
| tarry | await, expect, anticipate |
| think | expect, anticipate, look |
| thought | expectation, estimate, anticipation |
| unhoped | unexpected, unforeseen, unanticipated |
| unlooked | unexpected, unanticipated, unforeseen |
| unlooked-for | unexpected, unanticipated, unforeseen |
| yea-forsooth | always agreeing, fawning, sycophantic |
| Zenelophon | [pron: ze'nelofon] beggar-girl of a romantic ballad, loved by an African king |
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Words Families
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result(s).
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| Word Family | Word Family Group | Words |
| ANTIC [age] | BASIC | see ANTIQUE |
| ANTIC [character] | BASIC | antic n, antick n, antick v, anticly adv |
| ANTICIPATE | BASIC | anticipate v, anticipation n |
| ANTIQUE | BASIC | antic adj, antick adj |
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