(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.
Immemorial
Definition:
(a.) Extending beyond the reach of memory, record, or tradition; indefinitely ancient; as, existing from time immemorial.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Men have governed the world since time immemorial and what has the world been like?"
(2) Spinal cord injury resulting in paraplegia or tetraplegia has from time immemorial led to early death.
(3) The apostrophe has been missing since time immemorial.
(4) Rape has always happened in war since time immemorial, hasn't it?
(5) Unity Australia spokesman Terry Hall said in the lead up to the event: “Despite the suggestion of some counter-protest at the WA, Victorian and NSW events, we expect these to be peaceful and joyful occasions celebrating the way marriage has provided the best environment for the nurturing and protection of children since time immemorial.” A counter-protest had also been organised in the park, and about 50 protesters gathered there amid a large police presence.
(6) The Chinese people discovered ginseng and used it as a revitalizing agent since time immemorial.
(7) Then there's the problem of English-speaking actors doing German accents, the bane of movies about the world wars since time immemorial.
(8) Mercury has been used medically in the Middle East since time immemorial.
(9) Dining tables in particular have immemorial meanings.
(10) Nevertheless, Achebe absorbed the folk tales told to him by his mother and older sister, stories he described as having "the immemorial quality of the sky, and the forests and the rivers".
(11) This slightly arch disguise of a French alter ego allows Hawthorne to pretend that the story is another of his "finds", and so invests it with a kind of immemorial halo - a cautionary fable from ancestral wisdom.
(12) Since time immemorial the Chinese people have used various parts of motherwort to meet different physical needs.
(13) Dried fish has, from time immemorial, been an important item of the diet.
(14) There is an obvious reason for this: since time immemorial the rich have been averse to declaring their wealth.
(15) Men have been talking of death from time immemorial - sometimes sublimely in prose and poetry, in painting and sculpture and in music - till silence seemed to fall in the recent past.
(16) Craniofacial malformations have been recorded since time immemorial.
(17) "Mapmaking has helped them to assert their claims to the land by identifying exactly the areas they have lived since time immemorial," says the head of the Tebtebba foundation, Vicky Tauli-Corpuz.
(18) LS There have been grumpy shop encounters since time immemorial.
(19) It can be summarized by saying that lymphocytes have been destined from time immemorial to identify a specific antigen.
(20) In this paper, I have suggested that plasma membrane cell adhesion proteins that were involved in ontogenic organogenesis since time immemorial were the ultimate ancestor of the adaptive immune system.