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  • noun Plural form of antient.

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Examples

  • This cannot be the mustela of the antients, which is supposed to be the sea lamprey.

    Travels through France and Italy 2004

  • Mr. Gildon observes, 'that this Tragedy is written after the manner of the antients, which is much more natural and easy, than that of our modern Dramatists.'

    The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 1753

  • Too many are confident, unaware of the God's awesome powers or their status as antients.

    Dart's Rant Of The Day: What's The Deal With Bloggerhouse? Dart Adams 2009

  • Too many are confident, unaware of the God's awesome powers or their status as antients.

    The Woodwork and Out Of... Lindsay Stewart 2009

  • The country on the east side of the river being found extremely pleasant, the Great Sun, upon the return of those who had examined it, ordered all his subjects who lived in the plains and who still defended themselves against the antients [sic] of the country, to remove into this land, here to build a temple, and to preserve the eternal fire.

    Native Americans: They Were Seen as Savages 2007

  • But have not the moderns, Sir, if I must speak, the same advantages which the antients had, and some which they had not?

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • Too many are confident, unaware of the God's awesome powers or their status as antients.

    Meetup Roll Call 2006

  • It is a bad plea to urge that the antients and we differ in the ideas of beauty.

    Travels through France and Italy 2004

  • Here are likewise ornaments of architecture, which savour much more of French foppery, than of the simplicity and greatness of the antients.

    Travels through France and Italy 2004

  • It was the Avenio Cavarum of the antients, and changed masters several times, belonging successively to the Romans, Burgundians, Franks, the kingdom of Arles, the counts of Provence, and the sovereigns of

    Travels through France and Italy 2004

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