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Definition of Oldest
1. old [adj] - See also: old
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oldest
Literary usage of Oldest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"The oldest description of the liturgical celebration of this day in ... It should
be noticed that the oldest testimonies for the procession of palms on Palm ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"About contemporary with this is the oldest part of an inventory entitled ...
The oldest and most important of these essays (preserved in the Cod. ..."
3. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1912)
"For his two centuries of existence entitle him to the honor of being the oldest
living creature in the United States. The Giant Tortoise is not native to ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The oldest Christian literature shows with great evidence that the first
controversies among Christians were always decided by texts of the Old Testament, ..."
5. The Popular Science Monthly (1885)
"THE oldest AIR-BREATHERS. WE alluded in the March number of the "Monthly," to
the fossil scorpions recently discovered in the Upper Silurian formations of ..."
6. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1866)
"HH THE oldest CHURCH. Is it ?—The oldest church now existing in this country ig
situated near Smithfield, Isle of Wight county, Va. ..."
7. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1867)
"It may be hard to assign exactly the difference between " oldest " and " eldest."
Whatever it may be, it is clearly matter of idiomatic usage, ..."
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