N. {opp. 79} generality, generalization, # universality, catholicity, catholicism, miscellany, miscellaneousness, dragnet, common run, worldwideness, everyone, everybody, all hands, all the world and his wife, anybody, n or m, all sorts, prevalence, run

V. be general, prevail, be going about, stalk abroad, render general, generalize

Adj. general, generic, collective, broad, comprehensive, sweeping, encyclopedical, widespread, universal, catholic, catholical, common, worldwide, ecumenical, oecumenical, transcendental, prevalent, prevailing, rife, epidemic, besetting, all over, covered with, pan-american, anglican, pan-hellenic, pan-germanic, slavic, panharmonic, every, all, unspecified, impersonal, customary

Adv. whatever, whatsoever, to a man, one and all, generally, always, for better for worse, in general, generally speaking, speaking generally, for the most part, in the long run

N. oldness, age, antiquity, cobwebs of antiquity, maturity, decline, decay, senility, seniority, eldership, primogeniture, archaism, thing of the past, relic of the past, megatherium, sanskrit, tradition, prescription, custom, immemorial usage, common law

V. be old, have had its day, have seen its day, become old, age, fade, senesce

Adj. old, ancient, antique, of long standing, time-honored, venerable, elder, eldest, firstborn, prime, primitive, primeval, primigenous, paleolontological, paleontologic, paleoanthropological, paleoanthropic, paleolithic, primordial, primordinate, aboriginal, diluvian, antediluvian, protohistoric, prehistoric, antebellum, colonial, precolumbian, patriarchal, preadamite, paleocrystic, fossil, paleozoolical, paleozoic, preglacial, antemundane, archaic, classic, medieval, pre-raphaelite, ancestral, black-letter, immemorial, traditional, prescriptive, customary, whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary, inveterate, rooted, antiquated, of other times, rococo, of the old school, after-age, obsolete, out of date, out of fashion, out of it, stale, old-fashioned, behind the age, old-world, exploded, gone out, gone by, passe, run out, senile, time worn, crumbling, secondhand, old as the hills, old as methuselah, old as adam, old as history, archeozoic, proterozoic, paleozoic, mesozoic, cenozoic, precambrian, cambrian, ordovician, silurian, devonian, mississippian, pennsylvanian, permian, triassic, jurassic, cretaceous, tertiary, paleogene, neocene, quaternary, paleocene, eocene, oligocene, miocene, pliocene, pleistocene, recent

Adv. since the world was made, since the year one, since the days of methuselah

Phr. vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi