Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In ancient times; in times long since past; of yore: as, Persia was anciently a powerful empire.
- In or from a relatively distant period; in former times; from of old; formerly; remotely: as, to maintain rights anciently secured or enjoyed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In ancient times.
- adverb rare In an ancient manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In the manner of very long ago. As the
ancients did. - adverb Done long ago.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in ancient times; long ago
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Examples
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* "Dragon-fly Island" was a name anciently given to Japan on account of the country's shape.
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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All travellers attest the luxuriant verdure of those extensive wadies; and that they were equally or still more rich in pasture anciently, is confirmed by the numerous flocks of the Amalekites, as well as of Nabal, which were fed in the wilderness of Paran (1Sa 15: 9).
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Siculus informs us that Ὠκεανὸς had been a name anciently given to the
The Odyssey of Homer 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1765
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Butler, the name anciently given to an officer in the court of France, being the fame as the grand echan - fon, or gi-eat cup-bearer of the prefent times.
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Little Russia was another arbitrary name anciently given to a great part of what has been also known as the Ukraine.
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Carmental Gate, which the Romans call anciently by that name in honour of the Nymph Carmentis, seer and soothsayer, who sang of old the coming greatness of the Aeneadae and the glory of Pallanteum.
The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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-- M. Pognon, French Consul at Bagdad, has announced to the _Acad. des Inscriptions_ that he has discovered the exact location of the region called anciently the land of
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A chapel near the cathedral, called anciently St. Genevieve's the
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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It is situated in the largest of them, which is thirty miles long, called anciently Pomonia, now
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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It was called anciently Phicoclæ, but took its present name before 997, perhaps after the destruction of the city by fire in 708.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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