Crossword clues for antiquity
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
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Old age. [Obs.]
It not your voice broken? . . . and every part about you blasted with antiquity?
--Shak. Ancient times; former ages; times long since past; as, Cicero was an eloquent orator of antiquity.
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The ancients; the people of ancient times.
That such pillars were raised by Seth all antiquity has ?vowed.
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An old gentleman. [Obs.]
You are a shrewd antiquity, neighbor Clench.
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A relic or monument of ancient times; as, a coin, a statue, etc.; an ancient institution.
Note: [In this sense, usually in the plural.] ``Heathen antiquities.''
--Bacon.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "olden times," from Old French antiquitet (11c.; Modern French antiquité) "olden times; great age; old age," from Latin antiquitatem (nominative antiquitas) "ancient times, antiquity, venerableness," noun of quality from antiquus (see antique (adj.)). Specific reference to ancient Greece and Rome is from mid-15c.; meaning "quality of being old" is from about the same time. Antiquities "relics of ancient days" is from 1510s.
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 European history. 5 (context often constructed as an uncountable plural English) A relic or monument of ancient times; as, a coin, a statue, etc.; an ancient institution. 6 State of being ancient or of ancient lineage.
WordNet
n. the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe
extreme oldness [syn: ancientness]
an artifact surviving from the past
Wikipedia
Antiquity is an album by saxophonist Jackie McLean and percussionist Michael Carvin recorded in 1974 and released on the SteepleChase label.
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 of the Mediterranean
- Late Antiquity, the period between classical antiquity and the Middle Ages
- Ancient Egypt, a civilization of ancient Northeastern Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern country of Egypt
- Ancient China
- Ancient Greece, a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history that lasted from the Archaic period of the 8th to 6th centuries BC to the end of antiquity (c. 600 AD)
- Ancient India
- Ancient Iran
- Ancient Israel and Judah
- Ancient Japan
- Ancient Near East, the home of early civilizations within roughly the modern Middle East
- North Africa during Antiquity, the history of Egypt, Ancient Libya, Numidia and Mauretania
- Poland in Antiquity, an era that dates from about 400 BC to 450–500 AD
- Romania in Antiquity, between the foundation of Greek colonies in present-day Dobruja and the withdrawal of the Romans from "Dacia Trajana" province
- Ancient Rome
- Ancient languages
- Ancient music, music that developed in literate cultures, replacing prehistoric music
- Antiquities, objects or artifacts surviving from ancient cultures
Antiquity is an academic journal dedicated to the subject of archaeology. It publishes six issues a year, covering topics worldwide from all periods. Its current editor is Chris Scarre, Professor of Archaeology at the University of Durham. From 2015, the journal is published by Cambridge University Press.
Antiquity was founded by the British archaeologist O.G.S. Crawford in 1927. The journal is owned by The Antiquity Trust, a registered charity. The current trustees are Graeme Barker, Amy Bogaard, Robin Coningham, Barry Cunliffe, Roberta Gilchrist, Chris Gosden, Anthony Harding, Paul Mellars, Martin Millett, Nicky Milner, Stephanie Moser, and Cameron Petrie.
Antiquity is a brand of Indian whisky, manufactured by United Spirits Ltd (USL), a subsidiary of the United Breweries Group. It was launched in 1992. It is available in two variants - Antiquity Blue and Antiquity Rare. Antiquity Blue is made of Indian and Scotch malt whisky blended with grain spirit.
Antiquity Blue was awarded "Silver Best in Class" in the Spirits Tasting competition by the International Wine and Spirit Competition, held at the Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America (WSWA) Conference, which took place in Las Vegas, United States from April 2 to 5, 2012. In a taste test by GQ magazine, Antiquity Rare received a rating of 4.2/10. The magazine said that the whisky had "won few admirers among the judges, with complaints of a perfumed, nearly acetone taste – except for one diehard fan".
The brand's main national competitors are Blenders Pride from Pernod Ricard and Peter Scot from Khoday India Limited, as well as competition from other USL whiskies in the same price range such as Royal Challenge and Signature. In some states, Antiquity also competes with Haig Gold Label from Diageo and Rockford Reserve from Modi Illva.
Usage examples of "antiquity".
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.