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antiquity
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Antiquity may refer to any period before the Middle Ages (476–1453), but still within Western civilization-based human history or prehistory: Ancient history , any historical period before the Middle Ages Classical antiquity , the classical civilizations ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Ancient times; former ages; times long since past. 2 The ancients; the people of ancient times. 3 (context obsolete English) An old gentleman. 4 (label en history) The historical period preceding the Middle Ages (c. 500-1500), primarily relating to ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE classical ▪ Roman funerary customs; art and mythology; women in classical antiquity . ▪ For the Renaissance: a reverential longing to recapture classical antiquity . ▪ The spread of this belief marks the divide ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Antiquity \An*tiq"ui*ty\, n.; pl. Antiquities . [L. antiquitas, fr. antiquus: cf. F. antiquit['e]. See Antique .] The quality of being ancient; ancientness; great age; as, a statue of remarkable antiquity; a family of great antiquity. Old age. [Obs.] ...
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In plain English this means that the ancient Maya had a far more accurate understanding of the true immensity of geological time, and of the vast antiquity of our planet, than did anyone in Britain, Europe or North America until Darwin propounded the theory of evolution.
Anglican disputant took his stand upon Antiquity or apostolicity, the Roman upon Catholicity.
In his remarks to the Anthropological Society, Bertrand provided additional evidence for the great antiquity of the Clichy skeleton.
They went back to the remotest antiquity among the Greeks, and were attributed by some to Bakchos himself, and by others to Orpheus.
Eighteen days were employed by the besiegers, to provide all the instruments of attack which antiquity had invented.
They are dying out day by day in such manner that I fear greatly to see these illustrious fragments of the ancient breviary spat upon, staled upon, set at naught, dishonoured, and blamed, the which I should be loath to see, since I have and bear great respect for the refuse of our Gallic antiquities.
Jesus Christ divulged the sacred and eternal truths contained in these views to mankind, and Christianity, in its abstract purity, became the exoteric expression of the esoteric doctrines of the poetry and wisdom of antiquity.
Alia emerged from her Hypostatic Union, Reath brought her away from the claustrophobic antiquity of Earth and back to the comparatively familiar confines of his ship, which patiently followed its slow orbit about the old planet.
When Alia emerged from her Hypostatic Union, Reath brought her away from the claustrophobic antiquity of Earth and back to the comparatively familiar confines of his ship, which patiently followed its slow orbit about the old planet.
Now he was surrounded by scores of savage batrachians, alone in a lost city whose prehuman antiquity his very presence blasphemed.
The extravagance of the Grecian mythology proclaimed, with a clear and audible voice, that the pious inquirer, instead of being scandalized or satisfied with the literal sense, should diligently explore the occult wisdom, which had been disguised, by the prudence of antiquity, under the mask of folly and of fable.
It was classical antiquity that provided the grounding for this approach and outside the church scholasticism was largely abandoned.
It takes no scribbler of antiquities to note Victorian styles still alive within us.
Kindar, Scriptor, Londini, 1700, and the next in antiquity is that of B.
The gesture of the vanquished wrestler signifying to the world a defeat which, far from disguising, he emphasizes and holds like a pause in music, corresponds to the mask of antiquity meant to signify the tragic mode of the spectacle.