anchient
anchient is the obsolete form of ancient.
Meaning of ancient
Adjective
ancient (comparative ancienter or more ancient, superlative ancientest or most ancient or ancientmost)
- Having lasted from a remote period; having been of long duration; of great age, very old.
- an ancient city
- Synonyms:
- aged
- Existent or occurring in time long past, usually in remote ages; belonging to or associated with antiquity; old, as opposed to modern.
- an ancient author
- Relating to antiquity as a primarily European historical period; the time before the Middle Ages.
- Experienced; versed.
- approved by the consent of the moste ancient doctors of the Churche [part of the book title]1550, Thomas Cranmer, A Defence of the True and Catholick Doctrine of the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of our Saviour Christ; with a Confutation of sundry Errors concerning the same, grounded and...
- Former; sometime.
- They mourned their ancient leader lost.1715–1720, Homer, “Book II”, in Alexander Pope, transl., The Iliad of Homer, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC
Forms of anchient
| comparative | more anchient |
|---|---|
| superlative | most anchient |
Questions about anchient
- What is anchient the obsolete form of?
- Anchient is the obsolete form of ancient.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: anchient (page history and authors); ancient (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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