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  • adjective comparative form of ancient: more ancient

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Examples

  • But if it be agreed we shall be tried by visions, there is a vision recorded by Eusebius, far ancienter than this tale of

    Areopagitica 2007

  • But if it be agreed we shall be tried by visions, there is a vision recorded by Eusebius, far ancienter than this tale of

    Areopagitica 2007

  • East Looe was the ancienter corporation of the two, and for some ages ago the greater and more considerable town; but now they tell us West Looe is the richest, and has the most ships belonging to it.

    From London to Land's End 2003

  • East Looe was the ancienter corporation of the two, and for some ages ago the greater and more considerable town; but now they tell us West Looe is the richest, and has the most ships belonging to it.

    From London to Land's End 2003

  • East Looe was the ancienter corporation of the two, and for some ages ago the greater and more considerable town; but now they tell us West Looe is the richest, and has the most ships belonging to it.

    From London to Land's End 2003

  • There stood the gobliness, even ancienter than Glory because she was ten years older.

    Harpy Thyme Anthony, Piers, 1934- 1994

  • If it be asked, why Christ makes mention of "those of old time?" it may be answered, that the memory of the ancienter Fathers of the Traditions was venerable among the people.

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • Many such a native medicine found favour and success with our single-minded forefathers, this being the "reverent simplicity of ancienter times."

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • Your master then is ancienter than your self, and 't please him; but yet thou, whose milk is not yet out of thy nose; that can'st not say boh to a goose; must you be making observations?

    The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

  • II., though possibly in ancienter times the species whereof the coin was made might be pure gold or silver; and this allay was that which gave the denomination of Sterling to that coin, _viz.

    Notes and Queries, Number 26, April 27, 1850 Various

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