WoW: antediluvian

Usage

"Get them to impress upon Sir Robert and his steely lady the necessary changes to be made to the antediluvian water supply in the village."

Daffodils
​Alex Martin

"Obviously it was the remains of a giant, killed in some antediluvian rock fight, who'd died on his back with his bony fingers thrust up into the air."

Quicksilver
​Neal Stephenson

"The afternoon was fading to eerie, windless twilight against which the siege engines rose up like the monsters of antediluvian tales."

The Dark Hand of Magic
​Barbara Hambly