vetustadj.

1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. i. Vetust, ancient, old.

1637 J. Bastwick Answer Information Sir J. Bancks 11 According to both the Divine Scriptures and all Antient trueth, and the vetustest Bishops.

1652 W. Charleton Darknes Atheism i. iv. 36 Your Contradiction of that vetust and almost Catholick Article, Hominem esse Dei Charagma, that man is made after the Image of God.

1847 Blackwood's Mag. 61 748 This is something too vetust to abide the shock of any agitation.

1891 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 7 Nov. 5/4 (advt.) Here you can get that vetust yet reliable Liver remedy.

1918 N.Y. Times 4 Feb. 8/4 The picture theatre..gobbles up the pennies with a voracity surprising to the more naïve generation, the braids and knickerbockers of the vetust nineteenth century.

1967 V. Mehta Portrait of India v. 251 I chance upon a member of the gentle infantry... From head to toe he is swathed in a vetust, exotic Hudson Bay blanket.

1995 J. D. Landis Lying in Bed 77 I felt that I had somehow been put together in the same way, with..my careful woolens and my guarded spectacles on my pretty face and my vetust mind.

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Vetustness, ancientness, antiquity.

1987 D. Wanner Devel. Romance Clitic Pronouns viii. 387 The texts are legal, inscriptional, and also historical.., quite openly set apart from the full naturalness of the norms of communicative dynamism for purposes of documentary objectivity, solemnity, and vetustness.

2014 T. Bearth in T. Bearth et al. Communicative Sustainability iii. 152 Added to..drop in quality due to vetustness of plants, what gave the death blow to local production was its subinfeudation to the local war economy.