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

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

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..

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..

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

Eld :: Eld (n.) Old times; former days; antiquity.

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..

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

Archaeography :: Archaeography (n.) A description of, or a treatise on, antiquity or antiquities..

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..

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

Antiquary :: Antiquary (a.) Pertaining to antiquity.

Time-honored :: Time-honored (a.) Honored for a long time; venerable, and worthy of honor, by reason of antiquity, or long continuance..

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

Doryphoros :: Doryphoros (n.) A spear bearer; a statue of a man holding a spear or in the attitude of a spear bearer. Several important sculptures of this subject existed in antiquity, copies of which remain to us..

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

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

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

Far :: Far (adv.) To a great distance in time from any point; remotely; as, he pushed his researches far into antiquity..

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

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