English Dictionary

ancientry

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈeɪn.ʃən.tɹi/

名詞

古語

(archaic) The quality or fact of being ancient or very old. / (archaic) Old-fashioned style, elaborate ceremony. / (archaic) Elderly people, elders, ancients (collectively).

日本語の意味

古く久しい状態や性質（古代的であること） / 古風な様式や、格式ある儀式 / 年長者、長老、先人たち

The ancientry of the ruined temple moved the townspeople to protect it as a sacred landmark.

廃墟となった寺院の古さが、町の人々にそれを神聖なランドマークとして守らせた。

意味（1）

(archaic) The quality or fact of being ancient or very old.

PEN, made of reed, cut, &c. like our pens, is of classical ancientry; but the first certain account of quill pens is in 636, in Isidore.

意味（2）

(archaic) Old-fashioned style, elaborate ceremony.

[…] wooing, wedding, and repenting, is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque pace: the first suit is hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig, and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly-modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and, with his bad legs, falls into the cinque pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.

意味（3）

(archaic) Elderly people, elders, ancients (collectively).

I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting

意味（4）

(archaic) Something ancient (countable); ancient things (collectively).

Kings Lynn is a pleasant town to ramble about. […] In its quiet and more secluded streets you come upon bits of ancientry, the waifs and strays of monastic times […]

意味（5）

(archaic) The olden days; antiquity.

(Holy and blessed always be His name) In essence inconceivable.

ancientries （ plural ）