Crossword clues for antediluvian
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
antediluvian \an`te*di*lu"vi*an\ ([a^]n`t[-e]*d[i^]*l[=u]"v[i^]*an), a. Of or relating to the period before the Deluge in Noah's time; hence, antiquated; as, an antediluvian vehicle. -- n. One who lived before the Deluge.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 ancient or antiquated; old; prehistoric. 2 Supremely dated. 3 Pertaining or belonging to the time period prior to a great or destructive flood or deluge. 4 (context biblical English) Pertaining or belonging to the time prior to Noah's flood. n. One who lived prior to Noah's Flood.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to the period before the Biblical flood; "Antediluvian man" [syn: antediluvial]
so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period; "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"; "antediluvian ideas"; "archaic laws" [syn: antiquated, archaic]
n. any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Deluge [syn: antediluvian patriarch]
a very old (or old fashioned) person
Wikipedia
The Antediluvian (alternatively Pre-Diluvian or Pre-Flood or even Tertiary) period—meaning "before the deluge"—is the time period referred to in the Bible between the Fall of man and the Noachian Deluge (the Genesis Flood) in the biblical cosmology. The narrative takes up chapters 1-6 (excluding the flood narrative) of the Book of Genesis. The term found its way into early geology and lingered in science until the late Victorian era. Colloquially, the term is used to refer to any ancient and murky period.
Usage examples of "antediluvian".
Antediluvian apostasy was the worship of God as Creator and Benefactor, and not as the Jehovah-God of Covenant and Mercy.
Antediluvian apostasy was the disregard of the original law of marriage, and the increased prominence of the female sex.
Not long after this Pickman produced a flashlight and revealed an antediluvian ten-panelled door that looked damnably worm--eaten.
Here he beheld a living specimen of one of the antediluvian turtles, the fossil remains of which are to be found with those of the Icthyosarus and the Plesiosaurus in the great cretacean graveyard of Central Australia, that mighty ocean of the Mesozoic age.
The Bible agrees with Plato in the statement that these Antediluvians had reached great populousness and wickedness, and that it was on account of their wickedness God resolved to destroy them.
The early Algonkin legends do not speak of an antediluvian race, nor of any family who escaped the waters.
Stephen was 22 Bloom would be 374 and in 1920 when Stephen would be 38, as Bloom then was, Bloom would be 646 while in 1952 when Stephen would have attained the maximum postdiluvian age of 70 Bloom, being 1190 years alive having been born in the year 714, would have surpassed by 221 years the maximum antediluvian age, that of Methusalah, 969 years, while, if Stephen would continue to live until he would attain that age in the year 3072 A.
Tigris, the Euphrates, and the Ganges pass beneath the Ocean to cross the regions towards which we are traveling, and then they empty into the Persian Gulf, whereas the Nile follows a more tortuous path through the antediluvian lands, enters the Ocean, resumes its course in the lower southern regions, and more precisely in the land of Egypt, emptying into the Romaic Gulf, which would be what the Latins first call Mediterranean and then Hellespont.
The Shelldrakes, I should explain, had not yet advanced to the antediluvian point, in diet: nor, indeed, had either Eunice or myself.
In Chaldea, Berosus enumerates ten Antediluvian kings whose fabulous reign extended to thousands of years.
Josephus attributes the invention of the constellations to the family of the antediluvian Seth, the son of Adam, while Origen affirms that it was asserted in the Book of Enoch that in the time of that patriarch the constellations were already divided and named.
And the Schenckius,--the folio filled with casus rariores, which had strayed in among the rubbish of the bookstall on the boulevard,--and the noble old Vesalius with its grand frontispiece not unworthy of Titian, and the fine old Ambroise Pare, long waited for even in Paris and long ago, and the colossal Spigelius with his eviscerated beauties, and Dutch Bidloo with its miracles of fine engraving and bad dissection, and Italian Mascagni, the despair of all would-be imitators, and pre-Adamite John de Ketam, and antediluvian Berengarius Carpensis,--but why multiply names, every one of which brings back the accession of a book which was an event almost like the birth of an infant?
You do not see the antediluvian kingdom, that of Sesostris and that of Semiramis?
Bible for the Antediluvian patriarchs we have the first instance of a striking agreement with the traditions of various nations.
After speaking of the last nine antediluvian kings, the Chaldean priest continues thus.