adjective
- comparative form of ancient; more ancient; of greater age or from an earlier time
Usage: nonstandard or archaic; 'more ancient' is the standard comparative form in modern English
Examples
- The ruins are ancienter than the castle built in the 1600s.
- These artifacts are ancienter than those discovered last year.
- The manuscript is ancienter than previously thought.
- That civilization was ancienter than the one we studied in class.