(a.) Old; that happened or existed in former times, usually at a great distance of time; belonging to times long past; specifically applied to the times before the fall of the Roman empire; -- opposed to modern; as, ancient authors, literature, history; ancient days.
(a.) Old; that has been of long duration; of long standing; of great age; as, an ancient forest; an ancient castle.
(a.) Known for a long time, or from early times; -- opposed to recent or new; as, the ancient continent.
(a.) Dignified, like an aged man; magisterial; venerable.
(a.) Experienced; versed.
(a.) Former; sometime.
(n.) Those who lived in former ages, as opposed to the moderns.
(n.) An aged man; a patriarch. Hence: A governor; a ruler; a person of influence.
(n.) A senior; an elder; a predecessor.
(n.) One of the senior members of the Inns of Court or of Chancery.
(n.) An ensign or flag.
(n.) The bearer of a flag; an ensign.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bobbing in warming waters, this ancient ice fossil will be gone in a couple of weeks.
(2) This is the first archaeological evidence of operative dentistry in ancient Israel, as well as the earliest date for this specific treatment in the world.
(3) And that ancient Basque cultural gem – the mysterious language with its odd Xs, Ks and Ts – will be honoured at every turn in a city where it was forbidden by Franco.
(4) Audiences were disappointed that the love scenes between Taylor and Burton that had been the talk of modern Rome were not repeated with so much passion in those of ancient Rome.
(5) The exact purpose of the complex is a mystery, though it is clearly ancient.
(6) Last week Isis bulldozed the ancient city of Nimrud , also near Mosul, which the militant group conquered in a lightning advance last summer.
(7) Stonehenge stood at the heart of a sprawling landscape of chapels, burial mounds, massive pits and ritual shrines, according to an unprecedented survey of the ancient grounds.
(8) Then there are the divisions of ethnicity, faith and caste, the ancient social hierarchy prevalent in much of south Asia.
(9) Further south is Ghadames, one of the most ancient settlements in north Africa , which Unesco calls “the pearl of the desert”.
(10) The rich ethnopharmacological descriptions in the ancient books of herbal remedy and those scattered in the folklore medicine contribute the possibility of this approach.
(11) A radiologic-pathologic correlative investigation of the normal age-related alterations in the spinous processes and intervening soft tissues was performed using cadaveric spines and both ancient and modern macerated vertebral specimens.
(12) In a ruling rejecting any claims to the "spoils of war," New York's highest court concluded Thursday that an ancient gold tablet must be returned to the German museum that lost it in the Second world war .
(13) The country’s other attractions include a burning pit at “the door to hell” in the Darvaza crater, and rarely seen stretches of the silk road, the region’s ancient trade route.
(14) Furthermore, it also witnesses the great resistance of the organism of ancient people in Latvia in cases of surgical intervention.
(15) The centre of an ancient Greek city state was its agora – a place of assembly, for the exchange of ideas among the free-born as well as of goods.
(16) A treasure trove of more than £1.7bn-worth of old masters paintings, Greek, Roman and Egyptian antiquities, ancient weapons and prehistoric archaeological items were allowed to be sold overseas in the year to May 2013, according to official statistics issued by the government .
(17) In ancient Rome and during the Renaissance compression by means of leaden plates was a well-known treatment of cancer.
(18) In the ancient specimens, 70% or less was extractable.
(19) The food of an ancient person requires a special attention: it must be soft and easily chewed.
(20) Throughout ancient Egyptian history, rulers changed capitals to enforce a sense of national renewal or unity – a trend that began with the first purpose-built capital of a united Egypt , some 5,000 years ago.
Antediluvian
Definition:
(a.) Of or relating to the period before the Deluge in Noah's time; hence, antiquated; as, an antediluvian vehicle.
(n.) One who lived before the Deluge.
Example Sentences:
(1) Given the last decade's copyright wars, it's amazing that Pirate Bay survived at all, not just because 10 is antediluvian in internet years.
(2) I give up reading of the hell that criminalisation – abetted by an antediluvian UN – inflicts on the people of Mexico, Colombia, Afghanistan and Burma.
(3) Noah has just opened at No 1 at the US box office despite facing a mixed reaction from religious audiences for its fast and loose interpretation of the story of the antediluvian patriarch.
(4) Antediluvian theocracy has had its day, and thinking Talibs know it.
(5) Were these bohemian rooftop-dwellers merely “ur-hipsters”, or antediluvian beatniks, allured by the aesthetics of self-induced poverty?
(6) The two-tiered system predicated on antediluvian beliefs about intelligence and testing does needless and wasteful damage to thousands of children.
(7) They are not anti-politics, just antediluvian, yearning for a politics that has already failed.
(8) Degas was a man of antediluvian attitudes, some of which appear now, as they did to many of his friends, as unconscionable.
(9) The assumption of privacy, of home life as castle, tacitly adopted by Bree, Susan, Lynette and Gaby, and their decisions to choose when and with whom to spill secrets, is being made to look antediluvian by the rising, currently victorious, generations of compulsive sharers.
(10) As a result, the coalition was free to implant its antediluvian economics in the public mind, and Labour was incapable of arguing back.
(11) Noah has been a huge hit in the US, despite controversy over its unorthodox depiction of the antediluvian patriarch.
(12) The antediluvian stuff we hear from Cameron's party is obscene.
(13) Rakoff watches in horror as Judy Blume , the bestselling children's author, takes her business elsewhere, apparently fed up with the agency's antediluvian approach.
(14) When Rakoff met a couple of junior editors from the New Yorker at a rooftop party, they pumped her for all the antediluvian details, such as the fact that Rakoff spent her days pecking away on a Selectric typewriter with the fat headphones of an old Dictaphone attached to her head and that the Agency tracked every detail of its authors' affairs on oversized, specially printed pink index cards.
(15) He continues: "Antediluvian theocracy has had its day and thinking Talibs know it," and adds: "Most Taliban leaders deeply resent their dependence on, and manipulation by, Pakistan's intelligence agency, the ISI … They yearn to be taken seriously as a credible, national political force."
(16) In practice, though, they're often a bit of an embarrassment – an antediluvian catalogue of Honeys, Pussys and Plentys.
(17) It was an attempt to grab the reins of a complex society with the almost quaintly antediluvian tactics of seizing the state television station and rolling some tanks on to the streets.
(18) We've become a nation of reactionary, antediluvian nitwits, unable to discern the difference between the Affordable Care Act and Obamacare , governed by equally reactionary pols who think nothing of holding our pay checks hostage .
(19) Compared to other countries like the United States or Germany, it's antediluvian."
(20) Today we can view this history with detached irony, as evidence of the antediluvian, a museum-piece that does not require to be confronted since it no longer has the power to threaten.