(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.
Archaic
Definition:
(a.) Of or characterized by antiquity or archaism; antiquated; obsolescent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Its language is “archaic and obscure”, the commission says.
(2) Separate item pools were developed to measure each disposition: Trance, Nonconscious Involvement, Archaic Involvement, Drowsiness, Relaxation, Vividness of Imagery, Absorption, and Access to the Unconscious.
(3) The patriarchal laws and the predominantly male enforcers of said archaic acts of parliaments condemn us criminals if we terminate our pregnancies.
(4) The stomach of N. savona shows gastric glands of an archaic type, without any acid-secreting parietal cells.
(5) The study presents a demographic assessment of the Carlston Annis (Bt-5) Late Archaic hunting and gathering population recovered from the banks of the Green River in west-central Kentucky.
(6) In extreme anticipatory condensation--what I do propose, from my own reflections, is the preeminent importance of an archaic characterological core in depressive illness.
(7) The two most distinct models of recent human evolution, the multiregional and the recent African origin models, have different retrodictions concerning specific archaic-recent population relationships.
(8) The Parkinsonian-like walking pattern of the healthy old-aged human is thought to be a disinhibition of an archaic pattern of posture and movement.
(9) Stress is laid on the role played by archaic fears of being the bearer of evil tidings.
(10) Nor was it an institution, or a curious, outdated source of national pride, or an embarrassingly archaic badge of national pride , of a Britain continuing to punch above its weight on the international scene.
(11) It added that mistakes in how officers handled intelligence could be down to its "archaic paper-based system, a lack of personal responsibility by officers, convoluted policing structures and subjective assessments of what was relevant".
(12) Microbiology laboratories that offer only the archaic retrospective Weil-Felix serologic tests should review the needs of their patients.
(13) the projective identification (archaic form), the identification, the transference (in psychotherapy), the regression etc.
(14) These observations demonstrate that thyroglobulin has evolved from the condensation of a duplicated copy of the acetylcholinesterase gene with an archaic thyroglobulin gene encoding the major hormonogenic domain.
(15) It is considered as a transsynaptic degeneration which probably reveals an archaic phenomenon, submerged but not lost through evolution.
(16) We need a smarter system of information use, not a bigger one; a digital NHS, not a paper-based archaic NHS.
(17) When the dust settles from this particular takeover furore, we should start thinking more practically about the fundamental purpose of companies: the current structure of narrow shareholder ownership is based on an archaic interpretation of shareholding and a very narrow objective: to maximise their return.
(18) The state of Wisconsin is still clinging to an archaic contraceptive law that prohibits birth control for unmarrieds.¿The mos t tragic victims of this law are unmarried teen-agers because studies indicate that sexual intercourse is very frequent among teen-agers, yet access to contraception is hard to come by.¿It is hoped that the Legislature will see fit to repeal this outdated contraceptive law.
(19) These results strongly suggest the presence of a V-ATPase in pinocytic vesicles of E. histolytica, and thereby support the notion that the V-ATPases in the organelles of higher eukaryotes are derived from an archaic plasma membrane-bound form.
(20) Submitted to their narcissistically uncathected archaic superego, depressives are strictly directed towards law and order.