antiquitous

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English

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Etymology

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From antiquity +‎ -ous.

Adjective

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antiquitous (comparative more antiquitous, superlative most antiquitous)

  1. Pertaining to antiquity; ancient.
    • 1865, Joseph Barnard Davis, John Thurnam, Crania Brittanica:
      had long before rendered it obvious that man, in all his diversity, is a very antiquitous denizen of the earth.
    • 1880, James Oliver Miller, A Picture of Life:
      Egypt antiquitous - thou palace of the Nile ; Tomb of the Pharoahs - stay a while.
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