prediluvian

Definitions

One who lived before the Flood; an antediluvian.

Examples

“When Noah in ark, with his ſons did embark, / Prediluvians, uplifted and pompous, / Deem’d his nautical ſcheme a fantaſtical dream⟳, / And pronounc’d the projector non compos.”

“[…] for the British have⟳ in 1,500 years progressed from an initial stage⟳ that was probably inferior to that of the prediluvians, and any shipbuilding that they learned from earlier races was a hindrance, not a help⟳.”

“With only two exceptions the prediluvians lived into their tenth century.”

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