Crossword clues for age-old
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
age-old \age-old\ adj. 1. 1 of very long duration
Syn: ancient
4. having reached a desired or final condition as a result of standing for a period of time; -- of wines, whiskey, fruit, or cheeses.
Note: As a result of having been aged, the product may be said to be mature or ripe (vs. green).
Syn: ripened
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. very old; having existed for a long time; ancient or well-established
WordNet
adj. belonging to or lasting from times long ago; "age-old customs"; "the antique fear that days would dwindle away to complete darkness" [syn: antique]
Usage examples of "age-old".
Christendom some form of proof for their age-old beliefs, some tangible support for their goddess-worshipping, Johannite tradition.
Normally, ketamine was used in such strong doses that it would produce unconsciousness, but Marcia felt ketamine had properties that could unveil age-old secrets of the psyche if it were taken in much smaller quantities.
It bespoke an inward and mighty battle with self, with heredity, with age-old custom, and as he opened his mouth to speak, a look almost of benignity, of kindliness, momentarily lighted up his fierce and terrible countenance.
From each end of four, the presses put first a banner in colour - red, green, blue - on the sheets that would be the front and back pages, and then came the closely edited black and white pages set onto rollers in an age-old, but still perfectly functional, offset litho process.
They say: this is man, ecce homo, here is the weary, greedy, wild, childlike, and sophisticated man of our late age, dying European man who wants to die, overstrung by every longing, sick from every vice, enraptured by knowledge of his doom, ready for any kind of progress, ripe for any kind of retrogression, submitting to fate and pain like the drug addict to his poison, lonely, hollowed-out, age-old, at once Faust and Karamazov, beast and sage, wholly exposed, wholly without ambition, wholly naked, filled with childish dread of death and filled with weary readiness to die.
It occupied a small narrow building, and the age-old symbol of an open hand inscribed with the symbols of the palmist hung above its door.
The Surma tolerated her strange ways because she did not interfere with them, and she had proved that she was not in fact sent by their age-old enemies, the Bumi.
We will try to answer that age-old question: Who can make the best barbeque, male or female?
Factions, old national rivalries, and age-old feuds were facts of Keshian court life, and the Empress kept her Empire intact by playing off one faction against another.
Eastern religions like Mind over Matter, so there were many talks about connecting modern physics to age-old doctrines from the major Asian faiths, especially those in the Vedantic tradition.
Above, a spiderweb of age-old metal drums, bridges, archways, and tubes threaded the darkness.
Puritan background--as often said--but from the ideal of republican virtue, the classic Roman stoic emphasis on simplicity and the view that decadence inevitably followed luxury, age-old themes replete in the writings of his favorite Romans.
Kelgrael Snowsar rewarded them for their deeds with the titles of Overdukes of Aglirta, in the same wise as he made the returned Baron Blackgult Regent of Aglirta, ere returning to his spellbound Slumber-for only when Kelgrael slept could his age-old foe, the fell and most mighty archwizard remembered by men only as the Serpent, be held also asleep, and away from the world he so desired to rule.
A strong friendship developed, but it was not an association either one cared to parade because of the age-old animosities between the German and French militaries.
Intended to confound and discomfort him, because he had been so rash as to intrude on the age-old solitude of these three malevolent artificials.