ancientry

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The quality or fact of being ancient or very old.

   “PEN, made of reed, cut, &c. like our pens, is of classical ancientry; but the first certain account of quill pens is in 636, in Isidore.”

2. isim Old-fashioned style, elaborate ceremony.

   “So he and Miss Vezzis were married with great state and ancientry; and now there are several little D'Cruzes sprawling about the verandahs of the Central Telegraph Office.”

3. isim Elderly people, elders, ancients (collectively).

   “I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting—”

4. isim Something ancient (countable); ancient things (collectively).

   “Kings Lynn is a pleasant town to ramble about. […] In its quiet and more secluded streets you come upon bits of ancientry, the waifs and strays of monastic times […]”

5. isim The olden days; antiquity.

   “Ere all, in ancientry æterne, was God (Holy and blessed always be His name) In essence inconceivable.”