It was just such a stick as the old-fashioned family practitioner used to carry—dignified, solid, and reassuring.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
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Merriam-Webster
— dating from the remote past : ANCIENT
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Macmillan
— used for talking about the age of someone or something
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Other Word Forms
older
oldest