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antediluvian

adjective
  1. so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
    “a ramshackle antediluvian tenement”
    archaic
  2. of or relating to the period before the biblical flood
    “antediluvian man”
    antediluvial
noun
  1. a very old person
    ancient
  2. any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge
    antediluvian patriarch