- Ancient times - Great age - Oldness - The quality of being ancient; ancientness; great age;
as, a statue of remarkable antiquity; a family of great antiquity. - Old age. - Ancient times; former ages; times long since past; as,
Cicero was an eloquent orator of antiquity. - The ancients; the people of ancient times.
- One of that class of Calvinists who consider the
decree of election as contemplating the apostasy as past and the elect
as being at the time of election in a fallen and guilty state; --
opposed to Supralapsarian. The former considered the election of grace
as a remedy for an existing evil; the latter regarded the fall as a
part of God's original purpose in regard to men. - Of or pertaining to the Infralapsarians, or to
their doctrine.