Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of long continuance; long-standing.

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Examples

  • There was a tall, thin, well-dressed old man-Peter estimated eighty or ninety years old-standing at the back of the city room, just inside the sliding doors.

    The Sinister Six Combo Castro, Adam Troy 2001

  • In this manner is accounted for the multiplicity of scars and fistulas seen on the swelling of an old-standing quittor.

    Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks

  • He follows those old-standing doctrinal sophisms laid down by human "science" but discredited by nature.

    Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration Louis Dechmann

  • That once done, some substantial redress of an old-standing grievance will not be much longer delayed.

    The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886 Various

  • There was very old-standing fracture of the pyramidal process (see Fig. 157), with the formation of a false joint between the process and the pedal bone.

    Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks

  • With a mixture of sailor's carelessness and of old-standing belief in his own luck he simply stuffed the precious waistcoat up the flue of the empty fireplace.

    The Rover 1923

  • Bolton127 that in old-standing cases of optic atrophy the thickness of Gennari’s band is reduced by nearly 50 per cent.

    IX. Neurology. 4c. The Fore-brain or Prosencephalon 1918

  • Frequently, in the hopeless tangle of symptoms, complaints and disconnected facts in the history as originally obtained, especially in old-standing cases, one does not really know just where to begin, what to start with in the first efforts to struggle with the problem of the ultimate genesis and evolution of the condition which is presented to him at the particular moment.

    The Journal of Abnormal Psychology 1916

  • Christmas, there arose an old-standing dispute between the two men on

    Tales of the Wilderness Boris Pilniak 1915

  • The chaplains were strictly forbidden to receive converts from any Protestant denomination, or to interfere with the old-standing abuse of bringing up all the children in

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

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