antiquity, antiqueness[obs3], status quo; time immemorial; distance of
time; remote age, remote time; remote past; rust of antiquity
     [study of the past] paleontology, paleography, paleology[obs3];
paleozoology; palaetiology|[obs3], archaeology; paleogeography; paleoecology; paleobotany; paleoclimatoogy; archaism, antiquarianism, medievalism, Pre-Raphaelitism; paleography.
     retrospect, retrospection, looking back, memory &c. 505.
<—­ originally — preterition; priority &c. 116 —­>

     laudator temporis acti[Lat]; medievalist, Pre-Raphaelite; antiquary,
antiquarian; archmologist &c.[obs3]; Oldbuck, Dryasdust.
     ancestry &c. (paternity) 166. 
     V. be past &c. adj.; have expired &c. adj., have run its course, have
had its day; pass; pass by, go by, pass away, go away, pass off, go off; lapse, blow over.
     look back, trace back, cast the eyes back; exhume. 
     Adj. past, gone, gone by, over, passed away, bygone, foregone;
elapsed, lapsed, preterlapsed[obs3], expired, no more, run out, blown over, has-been, that has been, extinct, antediluvian, antebellum, never to return, gone with the wind, exploded, forgotten, irrecoverable; obsolete &c. (old) 124.
     former, pristine, quondam, ci-devant[Fr], late; ancestral.
     foregoing; last, latter; recent, over night; preterperfect[obs3],
preterpluperfect[obs3].
     looking back &c. v.; retrospective, retroactive; archaeological &c. n. 
     Adv. paleo-; archaeo-; formerly; of old, of yore; erst[Ger], whilom,
erewhile[obs3], time was, ago, over; in the olden time &c. n.; anciently, long ago, long since; a long while, a long time ago; years ago, yesteryear, ages ago; some time ago, some time since, some time back.
     yesterday, the day before yesterday; last year, ultimo; lately &c.
(newly) 123.
     retrospectively; ere now, before now, till now; hitherto, heretofore;
no longer; once, once upon a time; from time immemorial, from prehistoric times; in the memory of man; time out of mind; already, yet, up to this time; ex post facto. 
     Phr. time was; the time has been, the time hath been; you can’t go
home again; fuimus Troes [Lat][Vergil]; fruit Ilium [Vergil]; hoc erat in more majorum[Lat]; “O call back yesterday, bid time return” [Richard ii]; tempi passati[It]; “the eternal landscape of the past” [Tennyson]; ultimus Romanorum[Lat]; “what’s past is prologue” [Tempest]; “whose yesterdays look backward with a smile” [Young].

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     #123.  Newness. —­ N. newness &c. adj.; novelty, recency; immaturity;
youth &c. 127; gloss of novelty.
     innovation; renovation &c. (restoration) 660.
     modernism; mushroom, parvenu; latest fashion. 
     V. renew &c. (restore) 660; modernize. 
     Adj. new, novel, recent, fresh, green; young &c. 127; evergreen; raw,
immature, unsettled, yeasty; virgin; untried, unhandseled[obs3],