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- adverb Obsolete form of
anciently .
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Examples
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When his father renewed his lease of the old stone-house, wherein his son A. Wood was borne (called antiently Portionists 'or Postmasters' Hall), for forty yeares, "&c.
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Nismes, antiently called Nemausis, was originally a colony of
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I cannot pretend to specify the antiquities of Vienne, antiently called Vienna Allobrogum.
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Had the bed of the Tyber been antiently forty feet lower at Rome, than it is at present, there must have been a fall or cataract in it immediately above this tract, as it is not pretended that the bed of it is raised in any part above the city; otherwise such an elevation would have obstructed its course, and then it would have overflowed the whole Campania.
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The Giullo, and the verde antico are very beautiful species of marble, yellow and green; the first, antiently called marmor numidicum, came from
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He calls it "Fenfield, antiently Fengfield," but makes no allusion to the etymology of the word, or to the origin of the custom.
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The flowing of the tide in the Severn was antiently called the _Hygra_.
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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_A festival celebrated in England antiently in memory of the sudden death of King Hardicanute A.C. 1042 and the downfall of the Danes_.
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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To say nothing of Paul and Peter, men antiently of the Family from whence your Husband came, there was Ignatius who was cast to the Lions, Romanus whose flesh was cut by pieces from his bones, and Polycarp that played the man in the Fire.
The Pilgrims Progress, in the Similitude of a Dream; The Second Part. Paras. 500-599 1909
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The Parliaments were to be kept antiently, we find in our old
State Trials, Political and Social Volume 1 (of 2) Harry Lushington Stephen 1902
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