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Definition of Ancients
1. Noun. People who lived in times long past (especially during the historical period before the fall of the Roman Empire in western Europe).
Definition of Ancients
1. Noun. (plural of ancient) ¹
2. Noun. The people of classical antiquity, especially such writers and philosophers. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ancients
1. ancient [n] - See also: ancient
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ancients
Literary usage of Ancients
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte by Auguste Comte, Frederic Harrison (1896)
"I shall prefer the historical titles of Geometry of the ancients and Geometry of
the Moderns. But it is, in my view, better still to call them Special ..."
2. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1823)
"PERPETUAL LAMPS OF THE ancients. No. 379, of the Spectator, relates an anecdote
of one having opened the sepulchre of the famous ..."
3. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1814)
"Ethiopia, without reflecting that this opinion is contrary to the received notion
of all the ancients, who believed that the heat was fo ..."
4. Critical Essays of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1725 by Willard Higley Durham (1915)
"HARRINGTON, FOR THE MODERN POETS AGAINST THE ancients. 1694 As the Justice and
Generosity of your Principle, the sweet Agreeableness of your Humor, ..."
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