ancient
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1. ancient - Noun
2. ancient - Adjective
3. ancient - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Old; that happened or existed in former times, usually at a great distance of time; belonging to times long past; specifically applied to the times before the fall of the Roman empire; -- opposed to modern; as, ancient authors, literature, history; ancient days.
Old; that has been of long duration; of long standing; of great age; as, an ancient forest; an ancient castle.
Known for a long time, or from early times; -- opposed to recent or new; as, the ancient continent.
Dignified, like an aged man; magisterial; venerable.
Experienced; versed.
Former; sometime.
Those who lived in former ages, as opposed to the moderns.
An aged man; a patriarch. Hence: A governor; a ruler; a person of influence.
A senior; an elder; a predecessor.
One of the senior members of the Inns of Court or of Chancery.
An ensign or flag.
The bearer of a flag; an ensign.
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In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
Men after the modern fashion, and asses after the ancient.
Don't move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless.
Custom without reason is but ancient error.