Definition of "auncient" [auncient]

• Obsolete form of ancient. (adjective)

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• "On the morrow morning, Ricciardo went to an auncient woman of his acquaintance, who was the Mistresse of a Bathing-house, and there where he had appointed Madame Catulla, that the Bath should bee prepared for her, giving her to understand the whole businesse, and desiring her to be favourable therein to him."
• "Bruno, and Buffalmaco (his auncient Confederates) who heard of this good"
• "Of Aegipte, and the auncient maners of that people."