Thesaurus / most ancient
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synonyms for most ancient
- age-old
- antique
- archaic
- hoary
- old-fashioned
- timeworn
- venerable
- aged
- antediluvian
- bygone
- elderly
- fossil
- oldie
- relic
- remote
- antiquated
- back number
- been around
- creaky
- early
- few miles on
- lot of mileage
- moth-eaten
- obsolete
- old goat
- older
- out-of-date
- outmoded
- primal
- primeval
- primordial
- rusty
- superannuated
- worse for wear
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I believe that these are ideal characters constructed from still more ancient legends and traditions.
GOD AND MY NEIGHBOURROBERT BLATCHFORDElyon is the name of an ancient Phœnician god, slain by his son El, no doubt the “first-born of death” in Job xviii.
SOLOMON AND SOLOMONIC LITERATUREMONCURE DANIEL CONWAYSomething remote and ancient stirred in her, something that was not of herself To-day, something half primitive, half barbaric.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOODWhen Cortez made conquest of Mexico in 1519 smoking seemed to be a common as well as an ancient custom among the natives.
TOBACCO; ITS HISTORY, VARIETIES, CULTURE, MANUFACTURE AND COMMERCEE. R. BILLINGS.Long before that, however, the sun had come back to gladden the Polar regions, and break up the reign of ancient night.
THE GIANT OF THE NORTHR.M. BALLANTYNEBecause it appears that in that ancient Accadian civilisation lie the seeds of many Bible laws and legends.
GOD AND MY NEIGHBOURROBERT BLATCHFORDIt is impossible to form a just estimate of the Bible without some knowledge of ancient history and comparative mythology.
GOD AND MY NEIGHBOURROBERT BLATCHFORDBut he kept his eyes upon the gliding river rather than on those dark hills crowded with their ancient dead.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOODThese scientists have worked miracles before which those of the ancient priests and magicians are mere tricks of hanky-panky.
GOD AND MY NEIGHBOURROBERT BLATCHFORDBeyond the village, on a rise of ground, was the church, its square gray tower crumbling down upon its ancient graves.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON