(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.
Cosmic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Cosmical
Example Sentences:
(1) If the Bicep2 result stands, the observation will be touted as evidence for cosmic inflation, the rapid expansion of the universe around a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second after the big bang.
(2) "The Lib Dems are either cosmically ill-informed or seeking to pull the wool over the eyes of many thousands whose jobs depend on a thriving shipyard," he said.
(3) Our planet, though tiny, could be cosmically important.
(4) The determination of permissible exposure to x-rays of our patients' during by diagnostic radiology was measured by ionometer, and compared with cosmic, natural and technical x-rays.
(5) This FAA- and NASA-sponsored study of cosmic radiation doses recieved by United States residents flying in commercial jet aircraft is the most extensive to date and combines computer calculations with experimental data.
(6) The discovery , which provides the first direct evidence of cosmic inflation – the long-held idea that in the fraction of a second after the big bang the universe underwent a massive growth spurt – was made by studying the polarisation pattern of the radiation left over from the universe's early years, the so-called cosmic microwave background (CMB).
(7) The conformer energies of both the free bases and the piperidinium salts can be quantitatively predicted by molecular mechanics calculations using the COSMIC force-field, in which the electrostatic interactions are calculated by a simple Coulombic model with the partial atomic charges in the molecules given by the CHARGE2 routine, and an effective dielectric constant of five.
(8) Scientists have found the first solid evidence for cosmic neutrinos, ghostly particles created in violent events in the far reaches of the universe.
(9) This paper deals with the changes in per capita and collective dose equivalent in Taiwan in the past three decades based on the measured terrestrial and cosmic radiation levels and the population distribution as well.
(10) These findings suggest a high biological effectiveness of heavy ions of galactic cosmic rays.
(11) 3M discs and the rough corundum discs caused significantly more surface roughness of the Cosmic surface.
(12) Researchers at Harvard University called a press conference in March to reveal that they had spotted the cosmic signature of ripples in space left over from the spectacular expansion of the early universe.
(13) Concentration of the radio nuclide beryllium-7, produced by cosmic rays, was measured in waters collected from both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
(14) The effect of cosmic radiation on air-dry lettuce (Lactuca sativa) seeds was investigated.
(15) Therapeutic 'dry' immersion (modified 'dry' immersion technique suggested earlier for simulation of the weightlessness state in cosmic research) was used in multiple-modality treatment of 15 patients with drug-resistant edematous syndrome of different origin.
(16) She's one of three immortal entities (together with Mrs Which and Mrs Whatsit) embroiled in a long struggle against the evil Black Thing, a cosmic cloud of darkness.
(17) Natural background radiation, from cosmic rays and sources in the air and rock, reaches 2 to 3 millisieverts per year.
(18) This is indicative of a significant contribution of galactic cosmic radiation to the radiobiological effect.
(19) He joined forces with two other teams with similar aims and in late 1982 Nasa agreed to go ahead with their plans, scheduling the collaboration's proposed cosmic background explorer (Cobe) satellite for launch in 1988 on a space shuttle.
(20) Nicholas Brady's text updated the science a bit, and Purcell created some gloriously crunchy dissonances resolving to broad, bright harmony as he praised Cecilia, the embodiment of music, and her role in creating cosmic harmony out of atomic chaos: "Soul of the World!