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Ancient

adjective

Belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire. "Ancient civilizations such as those of the Etruscans and Sumerians" , "Ancient Greece"

Very old.

noun

A very old person. Synonym: antediluvian.

A person who lived in ancient times.

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... much public feeling throughout the world for nearly a quarter of a century, and endangered not only the ascendancy of the Republican Party, but the financial strength of the United States, has become almost wholly one of theory and ancient history. ...

— Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 • George Hoar

... That this treatise contains no principles which are not universally received; and that this philosophy is not new, but of all others the most ancient and common. ...

— The Principles of Philosophy • Rene Descartes

... the increased power of the instrument. In one place, where they are more thickly sown than elsewhere, Sir William Herschel reckoned that fifty thousand passed over a field of view two degrees in breadth in a single hour. It was first surmised by the ancient philosopher, Democritus, that the faintly white zone which spans the sky under the name of the Milky Way, might be only a dense collection of stars too remote to be distinguished. This conjecture has been verified by the instruments of modern astronomers, and some speculations of ...

— Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation • Robert Chambers

... "Polimanteia," 1595, speaking of Harvey and Nash, and the pending quarrel between them, uses these terms: "Cambridge make thy two children friends: thou hast been unkind to the one to wean him before his time, and too fond upon the other to keep him so long without preferment: the one is ancient and of much reading; the other is young, but full of wit."[4] The cause of his disgrace is reported to have been the share he took in a piece called "Terminus et non Terminus," not now extant; and it is not denied that his ...

— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VIII (4th edition) • Various

... stopped, began poking the gravel with his toe, and smiled again as one who has heard an old story and wants to be polite. To Henry and me, it was unbelievable. We sat down on the hoary, moss-covered curb of the ancient fountain regardless of our spanking new uniforms and cried: "Well, my Heavenly home!" He nodded, drew a deep breath and said, ...

— The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me • William Allen White

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