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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Antiquity

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  • Included in Eastons: No
  • Included in Hitchcocks: No
  • Included in Naves: No
  • Included in Smiths: No
  • Included in Websters: Yes
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: No
  • Included in BDB: Yes

Strongs Concordance:

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Antiquity

ANTIQ'UITY, noun [Latin antiquitas.]

1. Ancient times; former ages; times long since past; a very indefinite term; as, Cicero was the most eloquent orator of antiquity

2. The ancients; the people of ancient times; as, the fact is admitted by all antiquity

Meaning that mankind are inclined to verify the predictions of antiquity

3. Ancientness; great age; the quality of being ancient; as, a statue of remarkable antiquity; a family of great antiquity

4. Old age; a ludicrous sense used by Shak.

5. The remains of ancient times. In this sense it is usually or always plural. Antiquities comprehend all the remains of ancient times; all the monuments, coins, inscriptions, edifices, history and fragments of literature, offices, habiliments, weapons, manners, ceremonies; in short, whatever respects any of the ancient nations of the earth.