antediluvian

• But those of us who are not antediluvian academics know that form (in that sense) is not an end, but a means of managing and holding together one's material. —  Purcell
• These were the keys which unlocked the treasures of the antediluvian world for me. —  The Story of My Life
• Moloch and Dagon themselves appear no longer as incarnate fiends, but as the spiritual counterparts of antediluvian monsters; and Milton's treatment of the Olympian deities jars upon us who remember his obligations to them. —  Life of John Milton
• I shall not excite surprise, I hope, by adding, after such brilliant testimonies of sympathy, that the inhabitants of Chaillot celebrated the return of Bailly amongst them by fetes, and fireworks, and that even the curate of the parish and the churchwardens, unwilling to be surpassed by their fellow-citizens, nominated the historian of antediluvian astronomy honorary churchwarden. —  Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men
• He detracted, it is true, from the significance of his success by admitting that no one in Rome took him au serieux, and the residents in the Vatican made sport of him as being “an antediluvian.” —  Recollections of My Youth

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