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Definition of Antediluvial
1. Adjective. Of or relating to the period before the biblical flood. "Antediluvian man"
Definition of Antediluvial
1. a. Before the flood, or Deluge, in Noah's time.
Definition of Antediluvial
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to a time before Noah's flood (or similar deluge myth) ¹
2. Adjective. antiquated ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Antediluvial
Literary usage of Antediluvial
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1887)
"antediluvial,' a good word, should replace ' antediluvian,' but has not done so
as yet. ... The mighty (not "antediluvial") stag. 1016. The ebbing wave. ..."
2. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1894)
"Those who find certain resemblances to simian skulls in those of antediluvial
man overlook the power of drawing shown in the etchings of animals on pieces ..."
3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1868)
"... and antediluvial ; and he obse the “ most modern “ of the Auvergne are of “
high antiquity. ..."
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