ANCIENTRY

Etymology

Noun

ancientry (plural ancientries)

(archaic) The quality or fact of being ancient or very old.

(archaic) Old-fashioned style, elaborate ceremony.

(archaic) Elderly people, elders, ancients (collectively).

(archaic) Something ancient (countable); ancient things (collectively).

(archaic) The olden days; antiquity.

In essence inconceivable.

Source: Wiktionary


An"cient*ry, n.

1. Antiquity; what is ancient. They contain not word of ancientry. West.

2. Old age; also, old people. [R.] Wronging the ancientry. Shak.

3. Ancient lineage; ancestry; dignity of birth. A gentleman of more ancientry than estate. Fuller.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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