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Antiquitarian :: Antiquitarian (n.) An admirer of antiquity. [Used by Milton in a disparaging sense..

Antiquity :: Antiquity (n.) An old gentleman.

Colossus :: Colossus (n.) A statue of gigantic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the Colossus of Nero in Rome, the Colossus of Apollo at Rhodes..

Antiquarian :: Antiquarian (a.) Pertaining to antiquaries, or to antiquity; as, antiquarian literature..

Timbrel :: Timbrel (n.) A kind of drum, tabor, or tabret, in use from the highest antiquity..

Oboe :: Oboe (n.) One of the higher wind instruments in the modern orchestra, yet of great antiquity, having a penetrating pastoral quality of tone, somewhat like the clarinet in form, but more slender, and sounded by means of a double reed; a hautboy..

Antiquary :: Antiquary (n.) One devoted to the study of ancient times through their relics, as inscriptions, monuments, remains of ancient habitations, statues, coins, manuscripts, etc.; one who searches for and studies the relics of antiquity..

Ancientness :: Ancientness (n.) The quality of being ancient; antiquity; existence from old times.

Antique :: Antique (a.) Old; ancient; of genuine antiquity; as, an antique statue. In this sense it usually refers to the flourishing ages of Greece and Rome..

Trumpet :: Trumpet (n.) A wind instrument of great antiquity, much used in war and military exercises, and of great value in the orchestra. In consists of a long metallic tube, curved (once or twice) into a convenient shape, and ending in a bell. Its scale in the lower octaves is limited to the first natural harmonics; but there are modern trumpets capable, by means of valves or pistons, of producing every tone within their compass, although at the expense of the true ringing quality of tone..

Ancienty :: Ancienty (n.) Age; antiquity.

Hoar :: Hoar (n.) Hoariness; antiquity.

Bullfighting :: Bullfighting (n.) A barbarous sport, of great antiquity, in which men torment, and fight with, a bull or bulls in an arena, for public amusement, -- still popular in Spain..

Antiquity :: Antiquity (n.) Ancient times; former ages; times long since past; as, Cicero was an eloquent orator of antiquity..

Hoary :: Hoary (a.) remote in time past; as, hoary antiquity..

Antiquity :: Antiquity (n.) Old age.

Down :: Down (adv.) From a remoter or higher antiquity.

Ancientry :: Ancientry (n.) Antiquity; what is ancient.

Vetust :: Vetust (a.) Venerable from antiquity; ancient; old.

Ascend :: Ascend (v. i.) To rise, in a figurative sense; to proceed from an inferior to a superior degree, from mean to noble objects, from particulars to generals, from modern to ancient times, from one note to another more acute, etc.; as, our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity; to ascend to our first progenitor..

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