Ancient of Days
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Ancient of Days
First recorded in 1570–80; from the Book of Daniel 7:9
Example Sentences
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He's well known as he's the same figure who appears as Blake's famous "Ancient of Days" – an old man, with Michelangelo muscles, a full head of long white hair, and a wizard-like beard.
From The Guardian • Aug. 17, 2010
The Ancient of Days is a figure he returns to repeatedly.
From The Guardian • Aug. 17, 2010
Poet Fitzhugh wrote four quatrains of lofty, Harvardian sentiment to be sung to the tune of "Ancient of Days."
From Time Magazine Archive
We are compelled to recognize something not ourselves from which we proceed, and in which we live and move and have our being, call it energy, or will, or Jehovah, or Ancient of Days.
From The Last Harvest by Burroughs, John
Ancient of Days, Atik Yomin, constituted by the seven Sephiroth, 727-m.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert
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