ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

time ago; years ago, yesteryear, ages ago; some time ago, some time since, some time
back.
yesterday, the day before yesterday; last year, ultimo; lately &c (newly) 123.
retrospectively; ere now, before now, till now; hitherto, heretofore; no longer; once,
once upon a time; from time immemorial, from prehistoric times; in the memory of man;
time out of mind; already, yet, up to this time; ex post facto.
Phr. time was; the time has been, the time hath been; you can't go home again; fuimus
Troes [Lat.] [Vergil]; fruit Ilium [Lat.] [Vergil]; hoc erat in more majorum [Lat.]; O call
back yesterday, bid time return [Richard II]; tempi passati [It]; the eternal landscape of
the past [Tennyson]; ultimus Romanorum [Lat.]; what's past is prologue [Tempest];
whose yesterdays look backward with a smile [Young].
2. Time with reference to a particular period
123. Newness -- N. newness &c adj.; novelty, recency; immaturity; youth &c 127; gloss
of novelty.
innovation; renovation &c (restoration) 660.
modernism; mushroom, parvenu; latest fashion.
V. renew &c (restore) 660; modernize.
Adj. new, novel, recent, fresh, green; young &c 127; evergreen; raw, immature,
unsettled, yeasty; virgin; untried, unhandseled † , untrodden, untrod, unbeaten; fire-new,
span-new.
late, modern, neoteric, hypermodern, nouveau; new-born, nascent, neonatal [Med.],
new-fashioned, new-fangled, new-fledged; of yesterday; just out, brand-new, up to date,
up to the minute, with it, fashionable, in fashion; in, hip [Coll.]; vernal, renovated,
sempervirent † , sempervirid † .
fresh as a rose, fresh as a daisy, fresh as paint; spick and span.
Adv. newly &c adj.; afresh, anew, lately, just now, only yesterday, the other day; latterly,
of late.
not long ago, a short time ago.
Phr. di novello tutto par bello [It]; nullum est jam dictum quod non dictum est prius
[Lat.]; una scopa nuova spazza bene [It].
124. Oldness -- N. oldness &c adj. † ; age, antiquity; cobwebs of antiquity.
maturity; decline, decay; senility &c 128.
seniority, eldership, primogeniture.
archaism &c (the past) 122; thing of the past, relic of the past; megatherium † ;
Sanskrit.
tradition, prescription, custom, immemorial usage, common law.
V. be old &c adj.; have had its day, have seen its day; become old &c adj.; age, fade,
senesce.
Adj. old, ancient, antique; of long standing, time-honored, venerable; elder, eldest;
firstborn.
prime; primitive, primeval, primigenous † ; paleolontological, paleontologic,
paleoanthropological, paleoanthropic † , paleolithic, primordial, primordinate † ; aboriginal