a. rare. [ad. L. vetustus, related to vetus old.] Old, ancient.
1623. Cockeram, I.
1637. Bastwick, Answ. Inform. Sir J. Banks, 11. Neither novell nor hereticall but according to both the Divine Scriptures and all Antient trueth, and the vetustest Bishops, and by the whole clergy of England in King Henry the eights dayes.
1847. Blackw. Mag., LXI. 748. This is something too vetust to abide the shock of any agitation.
Hence Vetustness, ‘ancientness, antiquity.’
1727. Bailey (vol. II.).
