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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Having the characteristics of antiquity, without necessarily being ancient..
‘I don’t see any distinction about it,’ said Mrs. Dalyell; ‘I never paid much attention to such old stories. Oh, if you believe all the Dalyell stories⸺ By the way, Susie, I wish you to pronounce the name as I do—as everybody is doing now. “D’yell” is so common—it is what the ploughmen say.’ / ‘It is the right old antiquous way,’ said Susie with energy, ‘and I like it far the best. I heard about the horseman too—what it means,’ she added in a low tone.
Susie Dalyell—or D’yell, as she prefers to call it, “in the true antiquous way”—is one of Mrs. Oliphant’s own charming little girls, a very Malaprop in her use of long words, and full of innocent palpitations, hopes, and fears.
Disputes arose between the Mahant of a religious society and the Government, as to the assessable quality of certain lands claimed as Lakhiraj and enjoyed by the society for a long time, free from assessment. The appellant was the antiquous proprietor, and claimed a portion of the lands, sought to be resumed and assessed, as forming part of his permanently assessed Zemindary.
Taking into consideration the thorough researches of English paleontologists, as well as the studies of Weinert and Mollison, it is necessary to acknowledge that very probably the jaw appertains to the Piltdown skull an^([sic]) that the antiquity of this discovery is equal to that of Pithecanthropus and Sinanthropus. Such being the case it behoves to consider a very antiquous bifurcation of the genus Homo in the upper Pliocene.
[…]short bows, cold salutations, supercilious looks, unreturned smiles, distant behaviour, forced familiarity, antiquous expression, accidental justle, unkind repartee usw.
The animal relics are, however, antiquous and their antiquity may be traced to the remote past.
The pebbles are carried along the stream for some time only in this river to give them their present structure which shows that the river is not so antiquous as other rivers of Orissa as Brahmani, Baitarani etc. in comparing the more roundedness and smoothness of the pebbles of those rivers.
It has been known that man’s antiquous history happened during the geological phase of pleistocene.[…]It is not only the Lord Jagannath has some tribal antiquous relationship, there are many village godlings worshipped by Hindu castle villagers are likely to be tribal in origin.
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Antiquous means Having the characteristics of antiquity, without necessarily being ancient..
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‘I don’t see any distinction about it,’ said Mrs. Dalyell; ‘I never paid much attention to such old stories. Oh, if you believe all the Dalyell stories⸺ By the way, Susie, I wish you to pronounce the name as I do—as everybody is doing now. “D’yell” is so common—it is what the ploughmen say.’ / ‘It is the right old antiquous way,’ said Susie with energy, ‘and I like it far the best. I heard about the horseman too—what it means,’ she added in a low tone.
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