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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 950 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the See also:late See also:Lat. antianum, from ante, before) , old or in olden times. "Ancient See also:history" is distinguished from See also:medieval and See also:modern, generally as meaning before the fall of the western See also:Roman See also:empire. In See also:English legal history, " ancient " See also:tenure or See also:demesne refers to what was See also:crown See also:property in the See also:time of See also:Edward the See also:Confessor or See also:William the Conqueror. "The Ancient of days " is a Biblical phrase for See also:God.

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