Definitions
Etymologies
- Latin vetustus old, ancient. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Babylonia, nec apparet ibi aliquid, qu鄊 ruin� grandis et vetust� cuitatis, qu� ab hominibus est deserta, sed � Draconibus inhabitata, et alijs animalibus, et volucribus venenosis.”
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
“This is something too vetust to abide the shock of any agitation.”
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
zeugma, ziggurat, xiphoid, xeric, whizgigging, whangdoodle, viviparous, vivific, vinolent, verjuice, vellicate, velleity and 1193 more...
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Old
Adjectives meaning old
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