ancient

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"Nor can there be any clear understanding of any Roman author, especially of ancienter time, without this skill."

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

The Europeans, had no Chronology before the times of the Persian Empire: and whatsoever Chronology they now have of ancienter times, hath been framed since, by reasoning and conjecture.

From The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended To which is Prefix'd, A Short Chronicle from the First Memory of Things in Europe, to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great by Newton, Isaac, Sir

Many such a native medicine found favour and success with our single-minded forefathers, this being the "reverent simplicity of ancienter times."

From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by Fernie, William Thomas

And, verily, Yielding the weary body to repose, Far ancienter than cushions of soft beds, And quenching thirst is earlier than cups.

From On the Nature of Things by Leonard, William Ellery

You know that, the ancienter men are, the nobler they are; and so was it said but now among these.

From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Payne, John