Flowres of Epigrammes, out of sundrie the moste singular authours selected, as well auncient as late writers.
With the swaggering vaine ofAuncient Pistoll, and Corporall Nym.
Theirs was the 'house of auncient fame,' or perhaps we should rather say they too belonged to the 'house of auncient fame' alluded to in the quotation made above from the Prothalamion.
As is redde, that in theauncient armies manie times hapned.
But by and by, you shall know these things better, if this reasoning make you not werie, conferring what so ever partes of the auncient orders hath ben, to the maners nowe presente.
Wherfore I have not thought good of the auncient thynges to reason other, then that, which I have judged to suche introduction necessarie.
In the chosen, shall there bee likewise brought in any auncient facion?
The auncient Romains had neuer ben abil to haue put all the hole worlde vnder theyre obeisaunce if theyre people had byn thus yerely oppressed.
A certaine auncient forme of poesie by which men did vse to reproch their enemies.
This made the auncient Poetes to inuent a meane to rid the gall of all such Vindicatiue men: so as they might be a wrecked of their wrong, & neuer bely their enemie with slaunderous vntruthes.
This meeter of twelue sillables the French man calleth a verse Alexandrine, and is with our moderne rimers most usuall: with the auncient makers it was not so.
By reference to the signatures of the principal inhabitants to the "Auncient Customs," Page 37, it will be seen that this is the orthography of the name, as written by the son of the martyr.
At last a tinker came sounding through the towne, mine hosts being the auncient watring place where he did use to cast anchor.
For what causes God permitteth this his distribution to be troubled, and the realmes of auncient nations to be possessed of strangiers, I delay at this time to intreate.
And finallie by their practises and deceit, we finde auncient realmes and nations geuen and betrayed in to the handes of strangiers, the titles and liberties of them taken frome the iuste possessors.
But the contrarie examples of the auncient prophetes[b] moue me to doubte of this our fact.
M{r} John Woodall an auncient M{r} of this Companie.
To Richard Cade “my auncient and honest servaunte” and to Jane his wife 40s.
This ceremonie amongest them is infalliblie kept, for that it is amongest them an auncient tradition, and founded vppon their religion.
The fyft shyre hath name Chelim: the great citie Nanquin, chiefe of other fyftiene cities, was herein of auncient tyme the royall seate of the Chinish kynges.
But tell me louely Eustas as thou lou'st me, Among the many pleasures we haue past, Which is the rifest in thy memorie, 560 To draw thee ouer to thine auncient friend?
An auncient name sir, belonging to the Chamber and the night gowne.
Untill about the twelfe or thirteenth yeere of Queene Elizabeth the auncient English fight of sword and buckler was onely had in use: the bucklers then being but a foote broad, with a pike of foure or five inches long.
For if in the Oke apple be founde Wormes, or Magots, then they signifie (after the opinion of auncient husbandmen) to the dearth and scarcitie in that yeare.
Alexander the mightie and noble Emperour, after he had subdued Darius the Persian kyng: at length came to Sydone, a famous citie, by reason of the auncient fame of the first founders.
On eche side portraide was a Victorie, With golden wings, in habite of a nymph And set on hie vpon triumphing chaire; The auncient glorie of the Romane lordes.
All which particulars doe most euidently appeare out of certaine auncient Ligier Bookes of the R.
The first day of August the Captaine Gabriel Martiningo was made knight of the order of the religion by the lord great Master, and was made the first auncient of the Italian nation, of the first baliage or priorie that should be vacant.
And if any of you will abide in the sayd isle, yee may so doe after your auncient vsages and customes, and much better.
Histories of auncient tymes, bee vnto vs witnesses of all tymes and ages, of kyngdomes and common wealthes, a liuely example.
Princes of auncient times, no smal praise and [Sidenote: The know- lege of Histo- ries maketh vs as it were liuyng in all ages.
The chro- nicles of aunciente tymes herein doe shew, and the decrées of auncient elders also, how horrible a thing adulterie is, when thei punishe it with death.
Citée of London, shewyng the auncient buildyng of thesame: the commyng of Brutus, who was the firste au- cthor and erector of thesame.
Rome, in his strength and auncient fame and glorie.
I greatly feare that all the Princely factes, the exploytes and conquests done by the Babylonian Queene Semyramis, neuer was recommended wyth sutch prayse, as hir vice had shame in records by those which left remembrance of auncient acts.
Whych of his auncient friends toke paine to rescue and delyuer him from his Enimyes hands which did pursue him?
If the auncient writers saye trewe, and namely Theodorite Historiographer of the auncient churche, Helene caused one to be nayled on her sonne's helmet, the other two she put in his horse bitte.
And thus was the precious tree of the Crosse re establysshed in his place / and the auncient myracles renewed /.
Euerie kinred doeth sacrifice in their owne tent, and hee that is most auncient is their Priest.
Alas, faire dames, to make my sorows plain Would but reuiue an auncientwound again, Which grating presently vpon my minde Doth leaue a fear of former woes behinde.
For it had bene an auncient tree": from Edmund Spenser's "Shepherd's Calendar.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "auncient" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
