n. The quality or fact of being ancient or very old.
n. Old-fashioned style, elaborate ceremony.
n. The olden days; antiquity.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. Antiquity; what is ancient.
n. Old age; also, old people.
n. Ancient lineage; ancestry; dignity of birth.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. Ancientness; antiquity; qualities peculiar to that which is old.
n. Old people: as, “wronging the ancientry,”
n. Ancient lineage; dignity of birth.
n. Something belonging or relating to ancient times.
Word Usage
"I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting."