Antiquity - Law Dictionary Search Results
Audience Court
of Canterbury, having the same authority with the Court of Arches, but inferior to it in dignity and antiquity. The Dean of the Arches is the official auditor of the Audience. The Archbishop of York has also
Bullfight
a sport of great antiquity in which men torment and fight with a bull or bulls in an arena for public amusement still
Calaveras skull
skull really belonged to the deposit in which it was found If it did it indicates an unprecedented antiquity for human beings of an advanced type
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Colossus
A statue of gigantic size The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity as the Colossus of Nero in Rome the Colossus of Apollo at Rhodes
Doryphoros
a spear or in the attitude of a spear bearer Several important sculptures of this subject existed in antiquity copies of which remain to us
Fig
A small fruit tree Ficus Carica with large leaves known from the remotest antiquity It was probably native from Syria westward to the Canary Islands
Oboe
One of the higher wind instruments in the modern orchestra yet of great antiquity having a penetrating pastoral quality of tone somewhat like the clarinet in form but more slender and sounded
Ogygian
king of ancient Attica or to a great deluge in Attica in his days hence primeval of obscure antiquity
Paleologist
One versed in paleology a student of antiquity
Rustic
Of or pertaining to the country rural as the rustic gods of antiquity
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