Noachian, a.
(nəʊˈeɪkɪən)
[f. Noach = Noah + -ian.]
Of or relating to the patriarch Noah or his time, esp. Noachian deluge, the Flood.
| 1678 Cudworth Intell. Syst. 451 Within eight hundred years after the Noachian Flood. 1711 Brit. Apollo No. 153. 2/1 After this Noachian Deluge, the Air..was changed. 1830 Lyell Princ. Geol. i. iii. (1837) I. 45 The universality of the Noachian cataclysm. 1876 Page Adv. Text-bk. Geol. vi. 113 Ascribing every phenomenon in the earth's crust to the operation of the Noachian deluge. 1879 Farrar St. Paul I. 427 Four restrictions, which belonged to what was called the Noachian dispensation. |
b. transf. Very ancient or old-fashioned.
| 1874 Hardy Far from Madding Crowd lii, A..grey overcoat of Noachian cut. |