anciently
Americanadverb
adverb
Etymology
Origin of anciently
Example Sentences
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By then, abacot had taken on a life of its own, referring to not just any cap but a "Cap of State, made like a double crown, worn anciently by the Kings of England."
From Salon • Oct. 4, 2021
The cameo form itself was one anciently associated with the celebration of Greco-Roman imperial rule, but here, adapted for use as Sasanian propaganda, it advertises the ignoble defeat of that rule.
From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2019
These regions originated from four pairs of anciently duplicated chromosomes21,22.
From Nature • May 8, 2018
In several of the poesie paintings, Titian cast the faces of his protagonists in shadow, obscuring our sense of their inner lives, making them at once more anciently remote and more humanly familiar.
From Washington Post
These anciently known planets are sometimes called the lucid or naked-eye planets—five in number: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.
From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by Todd, David Peck
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