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 antediluvian
      adj 1: of or relating to the period before the Biblical flood;
             "Antediluvian man" [syn: antediluvial]
      2: so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period;
         "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"; "antediluvian
         ideas"; "archaic laws" [syn: antiquated, archaic]
      n 1: any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Deluge
           [syn: antediluvian patriarch]
      2: a very old (or old fashioned) person