a. Honored or made honorable by length of time; revered or respected on account of long existence or old establishment.
1593. Shaks., Rich. II., I. i. 1. Old Iohn of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster.
1751. Mason, Elfrida, Poems (1774), 90. That old minstrelsy, which breath’d Through each time-honour’d grove of British oak.
1831. Willis, Poem Brown University, 57. They have grown time-honoured on their shrines.
1849. Pres. Taylor, Inaugural Address, ¶ 1. I appear here to take the oath prescribed by the Constitution, and, in compliance with a time-honored custom, to address those who are now assembled.
1887. Sir R. H. Roberts, In the Shires, ix. 141. A time-honoured custom had prevailed for years.
