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Idolatrous :: Idolatrous (a.) Consisting in, or partaking of, an excessive attachment or reverence; as, an idolatrous veneration for antiquity..

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..

Antiquity :: Antiquity (n.) The ancients; the people of ancient times.

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

Archaism :: Archaism (a.) Antiquity of style or use; obsoleteness.

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

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

Nobility :: Nobility (n.) The state of being of high rank or noble birth; patrician dignity; antiquity of family; distinction by rank, station, or title, whether inherited or conferred..

Antique :: Antique (a.) Made in imitation of antiquity; as, the antique style of Thomson's Castle of Indolence..

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

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

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

Archaic :: Archaic (a.) Of or characterized by antiquity or archaism; antiquated; obsolescent.

Fig :: Fig (n.) A small fruit tree (Ficus Carica) with large leaves, known from the remotest antiquity. It was probably native from Syria westward to the Canary Islands..

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..

Obliterate :: Obliterate (v. t.) To wear out; to remove or destroy utterly by any means; to render imperceptible; as. to obliterate ideas; to obliterate the monuments of antiquity.

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..

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..

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

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..

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