The old hat was so ancient it appeared to be antediluvian. From LearnThat.org.
A ramshackle antediluvian tenement. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
antediluvian man. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : antediluvian ideas. From Dictionary.com.
The doctor armed himself, and held himself in readiness to fire upon an animal which, by its dimensions, recalled the antediluvian quadrupeds. From Wordnik.com. [The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras] Reference
When Dewi Morris uses the word "antediluvian" you know you've got a problem. From Wordnik.com. [Blogposts | guardian.co.uk] Reference
He complains that merchants in Pasadena are "antediluvian" when it comes to the Internet. From Wordnik.com. [Journerdism | Will Sullivan's Stompin' ground for journalists and nerds.] Reference
That way, they would have found out what kind of antediluvian throwback they hve admitted to the EU. From Wordnik.com. [timesofmalta.com] Reference
"antediluvian" shape of the bat -- no paddings on the legs. From Wordnik.com. [Pickwickian Manners and Customs] Reference
"antediluvian," and for startling originality in his views as well as fearlessness in expressing them. From Wordnik.com. [Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places] Reference
Unfortunately an antediluvian length of time was not an. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Hand-hoeing, in both field and garden crops, is antediluvian. From Wordnik.com. [Hiram the Young Farmer] Reference
Yes, it was a taxi, an antediluvian one, but she must not be critical. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
The authenticity of his list of 10 antediluvian kings who reigned for 120. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
It was an old safe of some antediluvian manufacture and the lock was worn. From Wordnik.com. [The Sleuth of St. James's Square] Reference
I always knew he was extinct, but I had no idea he was antediluvian as well. From Wordnik.com. [Dick, Marjorie and Fidge A Search for the Wonderful Dodo] Reference
Millions were suddenly cut off, with their handiwork and antediluvian civilisation. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882] Reference
The ages of the antediluvian patriarchs, for instance, are accurately rendered into verse. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
The machine is dragged in lumbering fashion out into the sea by an antediluvian horse with. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878] Reference
Rather different to the measly rasher and the antediluvian eggs from the grocer's opposite. From Wordnik.com. [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference
Happily, the fatal hammer of the Speaker put down the venerable antediluvian, before he got to the end of the chapter. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
The libraries of the world are doomed to become museums, storage facilities for a form as antediluvian as cave paintings. From Wordnik.com. [Turning the Page] Reference
History whispers from her antediluvian lips of a race of giants; so does the earth reveal mammoths and stupendous forests. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859] Reference
Bluebell had treated herself to a smart little portmanteau for the cabin, being rather ashamed of her antediluvian luggage. From Wordnik.com. [Bluebell A Novel] Reference
The Bat, an animal of an antediluvian type, comes out at the same time, and assists in lessening these multitudinous swarms. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859] Reference
The specimens of precious stones were curious, and I was pleased to see amber containing perfect insects, perhaps antediluvian insects. From Wordnik.com. [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference
It is sufficiently clear from this quotation that Geoffroy was thinking only of a transformation of the antediluvian species created by. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
Such is said to have been the state of antediluvian sinners, when the spirit had ceased to strive with them, agreeably to the threatening. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons on Various Important Subjects] Reference
The antediluvian American Medical Association would; it practically must be intubated whenever the words "national healthy" are mentioned. From Wordnik.com. [The National Health Care Phobia] Reference
The inhabitants of the antediluvian world, as a consequence of man's first transgression, fell lower and lower in the scale of good morals. From Wordnik.com. [Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro] Reference
He even rises up into something like eloquent scorn when he discusses the manner in which some antediluvian annals were said to be preserved. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
The familiarity of a stink that he equated to his brothers was like going back in time, going home, and being in an antediluvian state within. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
My mother's wardrobe demanded an extensive addition, -- for, sooth to say, her costume had become, as far as fashion went, rather antediluvian. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850] Reference
The business of the ranch was the antediluvian occupation of rearing and shearing sheep, and to that end the village included a shearing-shed and. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885] Reference
To the bemusement of younger executives, Eisner had a habit of invoking antediluvian shows like "Baretta" and "Three's Company" to make his point. From Wordnik.com. [Sending An Sos At Abc] Reference
The precipices on either side of the river belong to the Elk Ridge, through which, at some antediluvian period, the colossal current has hewed its way. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873] Reference
The other came from a policeman, patiently poking with his club at the vent of one of the antediluvian sewers, which had -- as usual -- become blocked. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.] Reference
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