antediluvian


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Synonyms for antediluvian

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Synonyms for antediluvian

belonging to, existing, or occurring in times long past

of, existing, or occurring in a distant period

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Synonyms for antediluvian

any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge

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a very old person

of or relating to the period before the biblical flood

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so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period

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Roger Hodskins said: "It is wonderful in this day and age to belong to an organisation like the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes who, together with the International Order of Ladies Glades and friends like all the members of the Parkview Social Club, can put together donations to great causes like CLIC Sargent.
Of course, those "antediluvian reptiles" are never far off--Jarry's imagination is never at rest.
(1.) Considering the ages of a number of the antediluvian lives, see the "Metonic Cycle" which is based on 19 years.
All this took place in that antediluvian era when gender applied solely to French and German tables and chairs, books had not yet become texts, and gay was a synonym for jolly.
GIVEN the current shortage of houses and the consistent failure of the nanny state to address the problem is it now time to change antediluvian regimes and privatise the planning system in England and Wales?
I wonder if this The Peak Amwaj developer would consider giving a lecture on 'Business acumen in the 21st century', to my antediluvian developer.
What is the literal meaning of the word antediluvian? 8.
This Roman way of operating is antediluvian and un-Christian.
on clayed fence posts, antediluvian telephone poles,
At the moment there are many platforms that are accessible by stairs or that dreadful antediluvian lift that takes people a very long way round.
According to Beaulieu, the king was the focal point of wisdom and the closely related antediluvian knowledge in pre-Kassite times; lie was a culture bearer and responsible for ensuring harmony with the gods.
"[W]e must stop exploiting the Second Amendment to justify our pathetic, quasi-patriotic, petty imitations of antediluvian, cowboy-esque individualism."--Inside Vandy, Vanderbilt University.
Inspired by an Irish postgraduate conference for medievalists, the contributors find evidence in the attitudes of medieval translators on literal translation, in antediluvian lore in Irish texts, in the sources of Aelfric's descriptions of animals and his applications, in Giraldus as a natural historian, in Julian of Norwich's visions and revisions, in alchemy and poetics in The Canterbury Tales, in Middle English debates of mortality, in Whittocksmead's approach to compilation and organization as well as identity, and in the Protestant imagery of Piers Plowman.
This antediluvian legislation also makes adultery a crime, with a one-year brig sentence.