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antient (comparative antienter or more antient, superlative antientest or most antient)

1. Obsolete spelling of ancient.
   • 1578, Appian of Alexandria, translated by William Barker, An auncient historie and exquisite chronicle of the Romanes warres‎, page 282:

     And these be the antient beginnings of the great countrey of Illyria.

   • 1599, Robert Allott, Wits theater of the little world‎, page 111:

     In Gascoine, the wiues are in no subiection at all, but gad vp and downe at theyr pleasures, like antient Amazons.

   • 1604, José de Acosta, translated by E.G., The naturall and morall historie of the East and West Indies‎, The authors advertisement to the reader:

     The first being the workes of Nature, contrarie to the antient and receiued Philosophy, as to shew that the region which they call the burning Zone, is very moist, and in many places very temperate, and that it raines there, whenas the Sunne is neerest, with such like things.

   • 1673, John Milton, I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs:

     I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs
     By the known rules of antient libertie,
     When strait a barbarous noise environs me
     Of Owles and Cuckoes, Asses, Apes and Doggs

   • 1785, Dawes, Manasseh & Jones, Sir William, England's Alarm!, page 10:

     The trial by jury, your Lordship knows, is so antient a privilege belonging to mankind, that its origin cannot properly be traced.

   • 1906, The Athenaeum‎, page 745:

     The choral and orchestral concerts at the Antient Concert Rooms were of more than usual interest.

   • 1908, Wellcome, Henry S., From Ergot to ‘Ernutin’‎, page 9:

     I should greatly value any information sent me in regard to medical traditions or references to antient treatment in manuscripts, printed works, etc. [...] I should be glad to receive any information respecting the early history of ergot and ergotism, also references to the use of ergot as a medicinal agent in antient times.

   • 1912, W. J. Stavert, editor, The parish register of Burnsall-in-Craven: Missing portions recovered from the transcripts at York; together with the more antient inscriptions on monuments in the Church and Churchyard‎, page iv:

     John de Kirkby was of an antient Leicestershire family, which took its name from Kirkby Belers in that county.

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This spelling is still current within freemasonry.

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