Both Uses of
antediluvian
in
The Magic Mountain
- The Dutchman backed off from his antediluvian gesture of fury; he slowly lowered his arm to the table, his face lost its swollen redness; his expression seemed to say "cheers!" with only a conditional, after-the-fact threat still lingering there.†
Chpt 7.3 *
- This small cabinet, a little deeper than it was wide, was stained a dull black, had a silky cord that led to an electrical wall outlet, and stood on its special table in simple dignity—and bore no resemblance whatever to such crude, antediluvian machines.†
Chpt 7.7
Definition:
very old; or relating to the period before the biblical flood