antediluvian

antediluvian englannista suomeksi

1. antediluviaaninen, ennen vedenpaisumusta esiintynyt

2. aataminaikainen, vanhanaikainen

3. hyvin vanhanaikainen henkilö

4. patriarkka

1. vedenpaisumusta edeltävä

2. antediluviaani, antediluviaaninen

3. aataminaikainen

3. Substantiivi

4. antediluviaani

5. fossiili

antediluvian englanniksi

1. (senseid) Belonging or pertaining to, or existing in, the time prior to the great flood described in Genesis, or to a great or destructive flood or deluge described in other mythologies.

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2. (RQ:Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica), conduceable unto the Genealogy of our Saviour, and the antediluvian Chronology.

3. (RQ:Defoe System of Magick)'', vvho had no doubt preach'd againſt the Vices of the Antediluvian VVorld, and againſt Drunkenneſs among the reſt, muſt certainly knovv the Uſe of the Vine, and the Abuſe of it too; hovv elſe did he come to plant it at all, and to preſs the Juice out for Drinking it at all?

4. (quote-song)

5. (senseid) Of animals and plants: long extinct; prehistoric.

6. (RQ:Melville Moby-Dick)

8. Of a person or thing: very old; ancient.

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9. (RQ:Lamb Essays of Elia) let some sparks escape into a bundle of straw, which kindling quickly, spread the conflagration over every part of their poor mansion, till it was reduced to ashes. Together with the cottage (a sorry antediluvian make-shift of a building, you may think it), what was of much more importance, a fine litter of new-farrowed pigs, no less than nine in number, perished.

10. (RQ:Fowles French Lieutenant's Woman)

11. (quote-book)

12. Of attitudes, ideas, etc.: extremely old-fashioned, especially to a laughable extent; antiquated.

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13. (RQ:Burney Camilla)

14. (quote-web) The ruling continued in its surprisingly antediluvian rationale, invalidating untold numbers of nontraditional families.

15. A person who lived in the time prior to the great flood described in Genesis, especially one of the biblical patriarchs.

16. A very old person.

17. (RQ:Scott St Ronan's Well)

18. (quote-journal)|title=The Brownie of the Black Haggs|magazine=Blackwood's Magazine|Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine|location=Edinburgh|publisher=(publishing house)|William Blackwood,(nb...); London: Cadell (publisher)|Thomas Cadell,(nb...)|month=October|year=1828|volume=XXIV|issue=CXLIV|page=494|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=2_RFAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA494|column=1|oclc=1781863|passage=He was a boy in form, and an antediluvian in feature. Some thought (..) that he was really and truly a Brownie.

19. A person with extremely old-fashioned attitudes, ideas, etc., especially to a laughable extent; a fogey or fogey.

20. (l)