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antediluvian [ˌæntɪdɪˈluːvɪən -daɪ-] adj 1. (Christian Religious Writings / Bible) belonging to the ages before the biblical Flood (Genesis 7, 8) 2. old-fashioned or antiquated n an antediluvian person or thing [from ante- + Latin dīluvium flood] antediluvian a person who lived before the Flood. — antediluvian, adj. See also: Antiquity
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antediluvian adjective old-fashioned, ancient, antique, obsolete, out-of-date, archaic, antiquated, passé, out of the ark (informal), old as the hills those antediluvian days before television Translations antediluvian [ˌæntidəˈluːvɪən] adj (= outdated, archaic) [attitude, view] → antédiluvien(ne); [object] → antédiluvien(ne) antediluvian [ˈæntɪdɪˈluːvɪən] adj (liter, hum) → antidiluviano/a How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Having already described him in most of his present habitatory and anatomical peculiarities, it now remains to magnify him in an archaeological, fossiliferous, and antediluvian point of view. But go to the old Galleries, and look now at a great Christian painter's portrait of this fish; for he succeeds no better than the antediluvian Hindoo. Percy Northumberland Driscoll, brother to the judge, and younger than he by five years, was a married man, and had had children around his hearthstone; but they were attacked in detail by measles, croup, and scarlet fever, and this had given the doctor a chance with his effective antediluvian methods; so the cradles were empty. |
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