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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. He doth bestride the narrow world Like a colossus. Shak.

on, as a concurrent cause of this reformation. Sir J. Davies. The concurrent testimony of antiquity. Bp. Warburton.

leness. The perfect consonancy of our persecuted church to the doctrines of Scripture and antiquity. Hammond. The optic nerve responds to the waves with which it is in consonance. Tyndall.

t which is held as an opinion; a tenet; a doctrine. The obscure and loose dogmas of early antiquity. Whewell.

n the attitude of a spear bearer. Several important sculptures of this subject existed in antiquity, copies of which remain to us.

From a remoter or higher antiquity. Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation. D. Webster.

Gothic cathedral raises ideas of grandeur in our minds by the size, its height, . . . its antiquity, and its durability. Blair.

Old times; former days; antiquity. [Poetic] Astrologers and men of eld. Longfellow.

a great distance in time from any point; remotely; as, he pushed his researches far into antiquity.

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.

Hoariness; antiquity. [R.] Covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages. Burke.

Hence, remote in time past; as, hoary antiquity.

actice, or method of measuring time by hours and subordinate divisions. "The horometry of antiquity." Sir T. Browne.

, or partaking of, an excessive attachment or reverence; as, an idolatrous veneration for antiquity.

mprehensibleness; inconceivability; inexplicability. The constant, universal sense of all antiquity unanimously confessing an incomprehensibility in many of the articles of the Christian faith. South.

A machine of great antiquity, used in Bengal for raising water to irrigate land. Knight.

One who is conspicuous or noteworthy; a model or example; as, the lights of the age or of antiquity. Joan of Are, A light of ancient France. Tennyson.

or to; to set something in competition with, or in opposition to, as equal. No history or antiquity can matchis policies and his conduct. South.

to render imperfect; as, to mutilate the orations of Cicero. Among the mutilated poets of antiquity, there is none whose fragments are so beautiful as those of Sappho. Addison. Mutilated gear, Mutilated wheel (Mach.), a gear wheel from a portion of whose periphery the cogs are omitted. It is used for giving intermitten…

The state of being of high rank or noble birth; patrician dignity; antiquity of family; distinction by rank, station, or title, whether inherited or conferred. I fell on the same argument of preferring virtue to nobility of blood and titles, in the story of Sigismunda. Dryden.