antiquous

From antique +‎ -ous.

antiquous (comparative more antiquous, superlative most antiquous)

1. Having the characteristics of antiquity, without necessarily being ancient.
   • 1892 January, Mrs. Oliphant, “The Strange Story of Mr. Robert Dalyell”, in The Cornhill Magazine, volume XVIII, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., , “Chapter II”, pages 100–101:

     ‘I don’t see any distinction about it,’ said Mrs. Dalyell; ‘I never paid much attention to such old stories. Oh, if you believe all the Dalyell stories⸺ By the way, Susie, I wish you to pronounce the name as I do—as everybody is doing now. “D’yell” is so common—it is what the ploughmen say.’ / ‘It is the right old antiquous way,’ said Susie with energy, ‘and I like it far the best. I heard about the horseman too—what it means,’ she added in a low tone.

   • 1897, The Athenæum: A Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Music, and the Drama, page 712, column 2:

     Susie Dalyell—or D’yell, as she prefers to call it, “in the true antiquous way”—is one of Mrs. Oliphant’s own charming little girls, a very Malaprop in her use of long words, and full of innocent palpitations, hopes, and fears.

   • 1930, The Privy Council Digest, 1836-1930, page 305, column 2:

     Disputes arose between the Mahant of a religious society and the Government, as to the assessable quality of certain lands claimed as Lakhiraj and enjoyed by the society for a long time, free from assessment. The appellant was the antiquous proprietor, and claimed a portion of the lands, sought to be resumed and assessed, as forming part of his permanently assessed Zemindary.

   • 1947, Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska, page 131:

     Taking into consideration the thorough researches of English paleontologists, as well as the studies of Weinert and Mollison, it is necessary to acknowledge that very probably the jaw appertains to the Piltdown skull an that the antiquity of this discovery is equal to that of Pithecanthropus and Sinanthropus. Such being the case it behoves to consider a very antiquous bifurcation of the genus Homo in the upper Pliocene.

   • 1960, Günther Klotz, Das Werturteil des Erzählers: Formen der Bewertung der epischen Gestalten im “Tatler” und “Spectator”, page 155:

     […] short bows, cold salutations, supercilious looks, unreturned smiles, distant behaviour, forced familiarity, antiquous expression, accidental justle, unkind repartee usw.

   • 1966, Orissa District Gazetteers: Baleshwar, page 57:

     The animal relics are, however, antiquous and their antiquity may be traced to the remote past.

   • 1982, Manav: The Journal of Anthropological Society of Orissa, pages 40–41:

     The pebbles are carried along the stream for some time only in this river to give them their present structure which shows that the river is not so antiquous as other rivers of Orissa as Brahmani, Baitarani etc. in comparing the more roundedness and smoothness of the pebbles of those rivers.

   • 1982, Souvenir, Orissa Sahitya Akademi Silver Jubilee, 1982, pages 13, 16, column 1:

     It has been known that man’s antiquous history happened during the geological phase of pleistocene. […] It is not only the Lord Jagannath has some tribal antiquous relationship, there are many village godlings worshipped by Hindu castle villagers are likely to be tribal in origin.

   • 1987, The Armchair Detective, volume 20, page 216, column 2:

     It is nice to observe and enjoy a writer’s work taking shape and building to a climax, especially antiquous works.

   • 1993, Christoph Brombacher, Stefanie Jacomet, Jean Nicolas Haas, editors, Beiträge zu Philosophie und Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Evolution und Systematik, Ökologie und Morphologie, Geobotanik, Pollenanalyse und Archäobotanik, J. Cramer, →ISBN, page 81:

     (6) The sixth publication (Delpino 1896) in continuation deals with the monocotyledons. Among them the Butomaceae are considered the most antiquous (archetypic) group and compared mainly with Nymphaeaceae.

   • 1990, J.L. Guillerm, E. Le Floc’h, J. Maillet, C. Boulet, “5. The invading weeds within the Western Mediterranean Basin”, in F. di Castri, A. J. Hansen, M. Debussche, editors, Biological Invasions in Europe and the Mediterranean Basin, Kluwer Academic Publishers, →ISBN, pages 79–80:

     From the antiquous agriculture interference within the Mediterranean Basin, weed populations were and are, from former times to nowadays, obliged to adapt, with their genetic and somatic variabilities, and their life cycle adjustments, their behaviour to survive these recurrent and fluctuated agricultural interferences, and the resulting new relationships between species.

   • 2018, Christopher B. Knaus, M. Christopher Brown II, “Part II. Global Perspectives on Race and Culture in Black Colleges”, “Chapter 13. The Absence of Indigenous African Higher Education: Contextualizing Whiteness, Post-Apartheid Racism, and Intentionality”, in M. Christopher Brown II, T. Elon Dancy II, editors, Black Colleges Across the Diaspora: Global Perspectives on Race and Stratification in Postsecondary Education (“Advances in Education in Diverse Communities: Research, Policy and Praxis”, volume 14), Emerald Publishing, →ISBN, “Deconstructing African Colleges and Universities”, page 267:

     The silencing of indigenous African scholarship and antiquous models of African higher education reinforces the presence and preeminence and of Western universities scattered across the continent (Depelchin, 2005).

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