ancientry

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The quality or fact of being ancient or very old. archaic,countable,uncountable
    — PEN, made of reed, cut, &c. like our pens, is of classical ancientry; but the first certain account of quill pens is in 636, in Isidore.
  2. Old-fashioned style, elaborate ceremony. archaic,countable,uncountable
    — […] wooing, wedding, and repenting, is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque pace: the first suit is hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig, and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly-modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and, with his bad legs, falls into the cinque pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.
  3. Elderly people, elders, ancients (collectively). archaic,countable,uncountable
    — I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting—
  4. Something ancient (countable); ancient things (collectively). archaic,countable,uncountable
    — Kings Lynn is a pleasant town to ramble about. […] In its quiet and more secluded streets you come upon bits of ancientry, the waifs and strays of monastic times […]
  5. The olden days; antiquity. archaic,countable,uncountable
    — Ere all, in ancientry æterne, was God (Holy and blessed always be His name) In essence inconceivable.

词形变化

ancientries plural auncientry alternative antientry alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
state and ancientry

词源

Etymology tree
English ancient
English -ry
English ancientry
From ancient + -ry.
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