Antient Definition

noun

Obsolete spelling of ancient.

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adjective
antienter, antientest
1785, Dawes, Manasseh & Jones, Sir William, England's Alarm!, page 10.
The trial by jury, your Lordship knows, is so antient a privilege belonging to mankind, that its origin cannot properly be traced.
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1906, The Athenaeum, page 745.
The choral and orchestral concerts at the Antient Concert Rooms were of more than usual interest.
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Other Word Forms of Antient

Noun

Singular:
antient
Plural:
antients

Adjective

Base Form:
antient
Comparative:
antienter
Superlative:
antientest

Antient Sentence Examples

  • In his Antient Metaphysics (1 779- 1 799), Monboddo conceived man as gradually elevating himself from an animal condition, in which his mind is immersed in matter, to a state in which mind acts independently of body.

  • See Peter Rayleigh, History of Ye Antient Society of Cogers (London, 1904).

  • He was known from early life as a cultured musician, and became an enthusiastic golf player, having been captain of the Royal and Antient Golf Club of St Andrews in 1894-1895.

  • This opinion of the Swedish naturalist seems to have been little noticed in Great Britain till it was taken up by the learned but credulous Scottish judge, Lord Monboddo (see his Origin and Progress of Language, 1774, &c.; Antient Metaphysics, 1778).

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