Antient

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Meaning

Obsolete spelling of ancient..

Example Sentences

Our voyagers make beasts under the name of Pongos, Mandrills, and Orang-Outang, of the very beings, which the antients exalted into divinities under the name of Satyrs, Fauns, and Sylvans.

We likewise see by the valuable Work of Andrew Burdon, professor of the Royal French Academy of Painting, that the Antients occasionally used the Amphora form in other parts of the world as both cinereous and lachrymal urns; […]

I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs By the known rules of antient libertie, When strait a barbarous noise environs me Of Owles and Cuckoes, Asses, Apes and Doggs

The trial by jury, your Lordship knows, is so antient a privilege belonging to mankind, that its origin cannot properly be traced.

The choral and orchestral concerts at the Antient Concert Rooms were of more than usual interest.

I should greatly value any information sent me in regard to medical traditions or references to antient treatment in manuscripts, printed works, etc. [...] I should be glad to receive any information respecting the early history of ergot and ergotism, also references to the use of ergot as a medicinal agent in antient times.

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• antients
• antienter
• more antient
• antientest
• most antient

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