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veˈtust, a. rare.
[ad. L. vetustus, related to vetus old.]
Old, ancient.
1623Cockeram i. 1637Bastwick Answ. Inform. Sir J. Banks 11 Neither novell nor hereticall but according to both the Divine Scriptures and all Antient trueth, and the vetustest Bishops, and by the whole clergy of England in King Henry the eights dayes. 1847Blackw. Mag. LXI. 748 This is something too vetust to abide the shock of any agitation.
Hence veˈtustness, ‘ancientness, antiquity’.
1727Bailey (vol. II). |