Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to or of the nature of a deluge; diluvial.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a deluge, esp. to the Noachian deluge; diluvial.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Pertaining to a
deluge , orflood ;diluvial
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or connected with a deluge
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Examples
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Sufficient is however left to show that it belongs to an order of animals not yet described as either of anti or post-diluvian existence.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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A. David Lewis and MP Mann have made their four-issue series on diluvian or flood myths, Some Kind of Slaughter, available for free download in the hopes of garnering a Harvey Awards nomination.
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Some new kind of slaughter, or, Lost in the flood and how we found home again : diluvian myths from around the world / Chicago : Archaia, c2007.
Archive 2010-03-01 David S. Carter 2010
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Some new kind of slaughter, or, Lost in the flood and how we found home again : diluvian myths from around the world / Chicago : Archaia, c2007.
New Library Comics: February 2010 David S. Carter 2010
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Hanley Black's wife, a stout-in-the-middle matron of 45, thinks "It's positively indecent" while her husband "surveyed his wife's criminal shapelessness and voluminousness of ante-diluvian, New England swimming dress with a withering, contemplative eye" and tells her in a sentence never uttered by a human before or since, "You appear as a creature shameful, under a grotesqueness of apparel striving to hide some secret awfulness."
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Actually, I've heard people earnestly invoke the dome as the source of the diluvian waters.
Sunday School: Genesis 1:1-2:3 James F. McGrath 2009
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Perhaps the giant bike racks are actually intended to be mooring anchors for personal water craft in post-diluvian NYC.
Nether Mind the Bulwarks: Awash With Bikes BikeSnobNYC 2009
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If he advocated the same sort of ante-diluvian approach to the teaching of science, there would be uproar?
“The proper narrative of British history” Alix Mortimer 2009
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This would give the public a route into the evidence independent of the broadcasters and their ante-diluvian copyright and selective editing regimes.
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Irritable said, "Actually, I've heard people earnestly invoke the dome as the source of the diluvian waters."
Sunday School: Genesis 1:1-2:3 James F. McGrath 2009
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