Word Meanings - SYMBOLICS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The study of ancient symbols; esp. ,

STUDY
A representation or rendering of any object or scene intended, not for exhibition as an original work of art, but for the information, instruction, or assistance of the maker; as, a study of heads or of hands for a figure picture. (more
ANCIENTNESS
The quality of being ancient; antiquity; existence from old times.
ANCIENTLY
1. In ancient times. 2. In an ancient manner.
ANCIENTRY
1. Antiquity; what is ancient. They contain not word of ancientry. West. 2. Old age; also, old people. Wronging the ancientry. Shak. 3. Ancient lineage; ancestry; dignity of birth. A gentleman of more ancientry than estate. Fuller.
ANCIENT
1. Old; that happened or existed in former times, usually at a great distance of time; belonging to times long past; specifically applied to the times before the fall of the Roman empire; -- opposed to modern; as, ancient authors, literature,
ANCIENTY
1. Age; antiquity. Martin. 2. Seniority.
CHILD STUDY
A scientific study of children, undertaken for the purpose of discovering the laws of development of the body and the mind from birth to manhood.
UNDERSTUDY
To study, as another actor's part, in order to be his substitute in an emergency; to study another actor's part.