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ancients <an ancient; ancients> N

ancients
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the ancients

ancient ADJ

ancient

ancient monument

ancient times

be ancient VB

more ancient

ancient ancestral line

in ancient times

featherless arrow used by ancient Arabs in divination

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The contact band looks somewhat like a doorframe, and the term - it was coined by the ancients - is allusive.
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On campaigns the ancients did not obstruct those in a narrow pass.
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Among the ancients the ninth day was a day of expiation and funeral service -- "novemdiale sacrum", the origin doubtless of the novena for the dead.
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This illusion caused ancients to falsely believe in a geocentric universe rather than the currently accepted heliocentric view.
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The dimensions of the system were standardised and measured by the ancients, conforming to a progression of numbers that harmonized distance and time.
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The ancients developed an enduring metaphor for a polity's evolution: they drew an analogy between an individual human's life cycle, and developments undergone by a body politic.
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He devours knowledge and the wisdom of the ancients with the voracity of the autodidact he is: the son of poor farmers.
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To use the moderns as the standard for the ancients is to misrepresent the ancients.
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But more delicate species that need ancients woodland or open glades, like wood sorrel, meadow clary and lady's slipper orchid, are struggling.
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The ancients, in the midst of chaos, were tranquil together with the whole world.
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