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Antediluvian :: Antediluvian (n.) One who lived before the Deluge.

Deluge :: Deluge (n.) A washing away; an overflowing of the land by water; an inundation; a flood; specifically, The Deluge, the great flood in the days of Noah (Gen. vii.)..

Diluvial :: Diluvial (a.) Of or pertaining to a flood or deluge, esp. to the great deluge in the days of Noah; diluvian..

Universality :: Universality (n.) The quality or state of being universal; unlimited extension or application; generality; -- distinguished from particularity; as, the unversality of a proposition; the unversality of sin; the unversality of the Deluge..

Antecedent :: Antecedent (a.) Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause..

Ogygian :: Ogygian (a.) Of or pertaining to Ogyges, a mythical king of ancient Attica, or to a great deluge in Attica in his days; hence, primeval; of obscure antiquity..

Clysmian :: Clysmian (a.) Connected with, or related to, the deluge, or to a cataclysm; as, clysmian changes..

Ark :: Ark (n.) The large, chestlike vessel in which Noah and his family were preserved during the Deluge. Gen. vi. Hence: Any place of refuge..

Deluge :: Deluge (v. t.) To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm.

Cataclysm :: Cataclysm (n.) An extensive overflow or sweeping flood of water; a deluge.

Noah :: Noah (n.) A patriarch of Biblical history, in the time of the Deluge..

Deluge :: Deluge (v. t.) To overwhelm, as with a deluge; to cover; to overspread; to overpower; to submerge; to destroy; as, the northern nations deluged the Roman empire with their armies; the land is deluged with woe..

Diluvial :: Diluvial (a.) Effected or produced by a flood or deluge of water; -- said of coarse and imperfectly stratified deposits along ancient or existing water courses. Similar unstratified deposits were formed by the agency of ice. The time of deposition has been called the Diluvian epoch.

Antediluvial :: Antediluvial (a.) Before the flood, or Deluge, in Noah's time..

Subungual :: Subundation (n.) A flood; a deluge.

Deluge :: Deluge (n.) Fig.: Anything which overwhelms, or causes great destruction..

Inundate :: Inundate (v. t.) To cover with a flood; to overflow; to deluge; to flood; as, the river inundated the town..

Flood :: Flood (v. i.) A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation..

Deluged :: Deluged (imp. & p. p.) of Delug.

Diluvian :: Diluvian (a.) Of or pertaining to a deluge, esp. to the Noachian deluge; diluvial; as, of diluvian origin..

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