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[ adverb ] in ancient times; long ago
Examples "a concern with what may have happened anciently" Used in print (A.L. Kroeber, "Semantic Contribution of Lexicostatistic...)the aspect of learning the internal organization of obvious natural genetic groups of languages as_well as their more remote and elusive external links ; of classification first , with elapsed age merely a by-product ; of acquiring evidential knowledge of what happened in Athabascan , in Yokuts , in Uto-Aztecan in the last few thousand years as_well as forecasting what more anciently may have happened between them . |
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