Before the Flood; antediluvian.
One who lived before the Flood; an antediluvian.
When Noah in ark, with his ſons did embark, / Prediluvians, uplifted and pompous, / Deem’d his nautical ſcheme a fantaſtical dream, / And pronounc’d the projector non compos.
From pre- + diluvian.
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