ANCIENT
ADJECTIVES
► ANTIOUS ancient, beautiful with age, rare → 19C Eng. dial.
► AVITOUS ancient, of long standing; that which came to us by our ancestors, ancestral → 1731 obs.
► BACK ancient, old-fashioned; belonging to bygone times → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BACKWARD ancient, belonging to the past, old-fashioned → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► CATHEDRAL ancient, antique, out-of-date → L17 sl.
► ELDERN ancient, of long ago → 1862 Sc.
► ELDEST most ancient, first; earliest, first produced → 897 arch.
► FAR-BACK ancient → 1890
► GRANDEVAL ancient, old, of a great age → 1650
► GREY-HEADED of things: ancient, old, time-worn → 1600
► LANG SYNE ► LANGSYNE ancient, of long ago, of yore → 1798 Sc.
► OLD ANCIENT ancient, antique, old-fashioned → 1893 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► PERANTIQUE very antique; ancient → 1883 obs.
► PRIMORDIAL existing from the very beginning of time, earliest in time; primeval, primitive; generally, ancient, distant in time → 1398
► PRIMORDIATE existing from the very beginning of time; earliest in time; primeval, primitive; generally, ancient, distant in time → 1599 obs.
► VENERABLE ancient, antique, old → 1792
► VETUST ancient, old → 1623
NOUNS
► ANTIQUE HOURS ancient times → 1609 obs.
► LANG SYNE ► LANGSYNE ancient times → 1835 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► PALAEOLATRY worship of, or excessive reverence for what is ancient → 1887
NOUNS – PERSON
► PHILARCHAIST a lover of what is ancient; an antiquary → 1652
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