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Meaning of antient | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

Obsolete spelling of ancient.

alt-of, obsolete

Examples

“Our voyagers make beasts under the name of Pongos, Mandrills, and Orang-Outang, of the very beings, which the antients exalted into divinities under the name of Satyrs, Fauns, and Sylvans.”
“We likewise see by the valuable Work of Andrew Burdon, professor of the Royal French Academy of Painting, that the Antients occasionally used the Amphora form in other parts of the world as both cinereous and lachrymal urns; […]”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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