antique
adjective
of or belonging to the past; not modern.
antiquely
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a word derived from
antique.
Example Sentences
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A gold ring, antiquely moulded, encompassed her middle finger.
From A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition by William A. Ross
The heroes of the Ossianic poems—the Finns and Dermats whom colonization had transplanted from Irish to Scottish legend—were not more unfettered or more antiquely chivalrous than the clansmen who boasted of their descent from them.
From A History of the Four Georges, Volume II by Justin McCarthy
It was too old-fashioned, too antiquely educated to realize the spirit of its age, the pass at which we had arrived of conceding to Women the same rights as to men.
From Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement by Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston
Their bronzed and antiquely moulded visages were surmounted by white muslin turbans with large folds.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell
It was much to my liking; for in that antiquely ordered room—and the presence of the Vidame helped the illusion—I felt always as though I had stepped backward into the thick of eighteenth century romance.
From The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier
