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Definition of Ancientest
1. ancient [adj] - See also: ancient
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ancientest
Literary usage of Ancientest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Church History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, James Nichols (1842)
"The ancientest: (2.) The poorest: (3.) The latest nuns in England. Of the first
sort we account the she-Benedictines, commonly called "Black Nuns," but, ..."
2. The Greatest Works of the Greatest Authors, Ancient and Modern (1894)
"... as in the present case ; for Pan was one of the ancientest gods, and long
before the time of Ulysses; besides, Peni-lope was venerated by antiquity for ..."