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Diluvian

adjective
1.
Of or connected with a deluge.  Synonym: diluvial.






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"Diluvian" Quotes from Famous Books



... as of yore; was there swimming in that planisphere, centuries before Solomon was cradled. .. Nor must there be omitted another strange attestation of the antiquity of the whale, in his own osseous post-diluvian reality, as set down by the venerable John Leo, the old Barbary traveller. Not far from the Sea-side, they have a Temple, the Rafters and Beams of which are made of Whale-Bones; for Whales of a monstrous size are oftentimes cast up dead ...
— Moby-Dick • Melville

... defy competition. Leave the drudgery of walking uphill beside your cycle! Progress is the order of the day. Use modern methods! This is the age of the telegraph, the telephone, and the typewriter. You kin no longer afford to go on with an antiquated, ante-diluvian, armour-plated wheel. Invest in a Hill-Climber, the last and lightest product of evvolootion. Is it common-sense to buy an old-style, unautomatic, single-geared, inconvertible ten-ton machine, when for the same money or less ...
— Miss Cayley's Adventures • Grant Allen



Words linked to "Diluvian" :   diluvial, deluge



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