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- adjective
superlative form ofancient : mostancient .
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Examples
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Go ahead and post the awfullest, grottiest, ancientest piece of juvenilia you still have a word processor that will open.
between the rock and the cold, cold sea -- Day hawkwing_lb 2006
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This is the ancientest citie of the Iland, and is walled about, but it is not strong neither of walles nor situation: It is by report three
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Hawk_, _The Tunning of_ Elianer Rumpkin: In many of which, following the humor of the ancientest of our Modern Poets, he takes a Poetical
The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley
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Koshchei wills, not only happens, but has already happened beyond the ancientest memory of man and his mother.
Jurgen A Comedy of Justice James Branch Cabell 1918
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Let it suffice that what I will, not only happens, but has already happened, beyond the ancientest memory of man and his mother.
Jurgen A Comedy of Justice James Branch Cabell 1918
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And this is one of their ancientest laws, that no man shall be blamed for reasoning in the maintenance of his own religion, giving to every man free liberty to believe what he would.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics Various 1910
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For this is one of the ancientest laws among them; that no man shall be blamed for reasoning in the maintenance of his own religion.
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To them be joined two of the ancientest and eldest.
The Second Book. Of their living and mutual conversation together 1909
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But the male children with all the whole male offspring continue still in their own family and be governed of the eldest and ancientest father, unless he dote for age: for then the next to him in age is put in his room.
The Second Book. Of their living and mutual conversation together 1909
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The ancientest Fathers must be next removed, as Clement of Alexandria, and that Eusebian book of evangelic preparation, transmitting our ears through a hoard of heathenish obscenities to receive the Gospel.
Areopagitica: A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing: Paras 1-19 1909
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