"antient" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1761, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A discourse upon the origin and foundation of the inequality among mankind, page 230",
          "text": "Our voyagers make beasts under the name of Pongos, Mandrills, and Orang-Outang, of the very beings, which the antients exalted into divinities under the name of Satyrs, Fauns, and Sylvans.",
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          "text": "We likewise see by the valuable Work of Andrew Burdon, professor of the Royal French Academy of Painting, that the Antients occasionally used the Amphora form in other parts of the world as both cinereous and lachrymal urns; […]",
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          "ref": "1785, Dawes, Manasseh & Jones, Sir William, England's Alarm!, page 10",
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          "ref": "1908, Wellcome, Henry S., From Ergot to ‘Ernutin’, page 9",
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