ancients

IPA: ˈeɪntʃʌnts

Examples of "ancients" in Sentences

And sending from Miletus to Ephesus, he called the ancients of the church.
And it came to pass, when the men had heard her voice, that they called the ancients of the city.
A society that subscribes purely to the wisdom of the ancients is a society that can only stagnate as it indulges in pedestrian navel-gazing.
That musk was a great favourite with the ancients is evident, for the Koran tells us that the waters of Paradise were more odoriferous than musk.
After many failures with elementary code-breaking techniques, eventually the young, brilliant linguist discovers a Periodic Table, and with that, starts figuring out words like “water” and “rust” and so forth, and lo, the wisdom of the ancients is uncovered.