Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Old; ancient.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Venerable from antiquity; ancient; old.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
venerable fromantiquity ;ancient ;old
Etymologies
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Latin vetustus old, ancient.
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Examples
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Babylonia, nec apparet ibi aliquid, qu鄊 ruin� grandis et vetust� cuitatis, qu� ab hominibus est deserta, sed � Draconibus inhabitata, et alijs animalibus, et volucribus venenosis.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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This is something too vetust to abide the shock of any agitation.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Various
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