It occurs frequently in Shakspeare and in more modern writers, as a verb, and is still used in common conversation as an imperative.
Who would be content to adopt the astrology of the ancients, in preferance to astronomy as now taught, because the latter is more modern?
We are well aware also of the adverse criticisms passed upon these documents; but since no one questions their Celtic origin--whether it be ancient or more modern--we are content to use them.
Nor is it altogether impossible that others may even now remain safe under the protection of more modern flooring, or superincumbent debris.
His taste is more modern in the larger altar-piece of San Domenico; whose composition rises above the monotony of the age, giving a representation of saints in great variety of attitudes and situations.
They are chiefly composed in the ancient manner, but on comparing some of the earlier with those that follow, a more modern air is perceptible, a circumstance attributed by Vasari to his own conversations with the artist.
The orchestral accompaniments sometimes consist of variations upon the theme, a form much favoured by Russian musicians of a more modern school.
The only philological works, which will be of use to those who may wish to study this Slavic dialect in our day, is a short grammar by Seiler,[8] and a more modern one by J.
Antonio, a picture of various saints, truly beautiful, and approaching to a more modern style.
Domenico, in a style similar to Gentile, and with a large proportion of gold; and another in a more modern style, an Annunciation, in the church of the Orfanelli.
It has also been shown that in proportion as the age of a tertiary deposit is more modern, so is its fauna more analogous to that now in being in the neighbouring seas.
All these materials have of course been transported to new regions, and have entered into the composition of more modern formations.
He acquired the principles of his art from Pietro Perugino, but he soon abandoned his school, to adopt a more modern style.
It must have astonished many readers in his own day, and would have passed for his work in more modern times, but for the accidental preservation of a single copy of a handbill Prynne published disclaiming the whole thing.
These, if formed in the same manner as more modern deposits of this kind, would imply the reducing and solvent action of substances produced in the decay of plants.
These Eocene strata are succeeded by a great number of more modern deposits, which depart gradually in the character of their fossils from the Eocene type, and approach more and more to that of the living creation.
The crowns worn by the Virgin and Christ are even more modern, and out of character with the rest of the painting.
Thus she appears in the genuine Greek and Greco-Italian productions of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, as well as in the two finest examples that could be cited in more modern times.
More modern instances, from the date of the revival of art, abound in every form.
It is truly astonishing how rapidly the common uses of even household furnishings and culinary utensils are forgotten when they are superseded by others of more modern type.
In very early times the leather work, hung upon the wall in panels, took the place of more modern wall-coverings, and it was truly lasting.
In 783, they landed in the extreme north of the island, and burned the town and abbey of Dere Columb-kill, the Londonderry of more modern times.
But let us look at the negro tribes in more modern days.
The first period may be emphatically called ancient Hebrew; and the latter, more modern.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "more modern" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
