ancient : Idioms & Phrases
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Ancient demesne
(Eng. Law) , a tenure by which all manors belonging to the crown, in the reign of William the Conqueror, were held. The numbers, names, etc., of these were all entered in a book called Domesday Book.
Webster 1913
ancient greek
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noun the Greek language prior to the Roman Empire
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ancient history
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noun a history of the ancient world
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noun knowledge of some recent fact or event that has become so commonly known that it has lost its original pertinence
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Ancient lights
(Law) , windows and other openings which have been enjoined without molestation for more than twenty years. In England, and in some of the United States, they acquire a prescriptive right.
Webster 1913
ancient pine
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noun small slow-growing pine of western United States similar to the bristlecone pine; chocolate brown bark in plates and short needles in bunches of 5; crown conic but becoming rough and twisted; oldest plant in the world growing to 5000 years in cold semidesert mountain tops
Pinus longaeva.
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Council of Ancients
(French Hist.) , one of the two assemblies composing the legislative bodies in 1795. Brande.
Webster 1913
seven wonders of the ancient world
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noun impressive monuments created in the ancient world that were regarded with awe
Seven Wonders of the World.
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The ancient régime , ∨ Ancien régime
F. , the former political and social system, as distinguished from the modern; especially, the political and social system existing in France before the Revolution of 1789.
