Age

8 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Age \Age\ ([=a]j), n. [OF. aage, eage, F. [^a]ge, fr. L. aetas
     through a supposed LL. aetaticum. L. aetas is contracted fr.
     aevitas, fr. aevum lifetime, age; akin to E. aye ever. Cf.
     {Each}.]
     1. The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable,
        or other kind; lifetime.


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              Mine age is as nothing before thee.   --Ps. xxxix.
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     2. That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is
        between its beginning and any given time; as, what is the
        present age of a man, or of the earth?
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     3. The latter part of life; an advanced period of life;
        seniority; state of being old.
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              Nor wrong mine age with this indignity. --Shak.
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     4. One of the stages of life; as, the age of infancy, of
        youth, etc. --Shak.
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     5. Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one
        attains full personal rights and capacities; as, to come
        of age; he (or she) is of age. --Abbott.
  
     Note: In the United States, both males and females are of age
           when twenty-one years old. Some rights, such as that of
           voting in elections, are conferred earlier.
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     6. The time of life at which some particular power or
        capacity is understood to become vested; as, the age of
        consent; the age of discretion. --Abbott.
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     7. A particular period of time in history, as distinguished
        from others; as, the golden age, the age of Pericles. "The
        spirit of the age." --Prescott.
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              Truth, in some age or other, will find her witness.
                                                    --Milton.
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     Note: Archeological ages are designated as three: The Stone
           age (the early and the later stone age, called
           paleolithic and neolithic), the Bronze age, and the
           Iron age. During the Age of Stone man is supposed to
           have employed stone for weapons and implements.
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           {Heroic}, {Middle}.
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     8. A great period in the history of the Earth.
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     Note: The geologic ages are as follows: 1. The Arch[ae]an,
           including the time when was no life and the time of the
           earliest and simplest forms of life. 2. The age of
           Invertebrates, or the Silurian, when the life on the
           globe consisted distinctively of invertebrates. 3. The
           age of Fishes, or the Devonian, when fishes were the
           dominant race. 4. The age of Coal Plants, or Acrogens,
           or the Carboniferous age. 5. The Mesozoic or Secondary
           age, or age of Reptiles, when reptiles prevailed in
           great numbers and of vast size. 6. The Tertiary age, or
           age of Mammals, when the mammalia, or quadrupeds,
           abounded, and were the dominant race. 7. The Quaternary
           age, or age of Man, or the modern era. --Dana.
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     9. A century; the period of one hundred years.
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              Fleury . . . apologizes for these five ages.
                                                    --Hallam.
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     10. The people who live at a particular period; hence, a
         generation. "Ages yet unborn." --Pope.
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               The way which the age follows.       --J. H.
                                                    Newman.
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               Lo! where the stage, the poor, degraded stage,
               Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age. --C.
                                                    Sprague.
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     11. A long time. [Colloq.] "He made minutes an age."
         --Tennyson.
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     12. (poker) the right belonging to the player to the left of
         the dealer to pass the first round in betting, and then
         to come in last or stay out; also, the player holding
         this position; the eldest hand.
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     {Age of a tide}, the time from the origin of a tide in the
        South Pacific Ocean to its arrival at a given place.
  
     {Moon's age}, the time that has elapsed since the last
        preceding conjunction of the sun and moon.
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     Note: Age is used to form the first part of many compounds;
           as, agelasting, age-adorning, age-worn, age-enfeebled,
           agelong.
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     Syn: Time; period; generation; date; era; epoch.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Age \Age\, v. t.
     To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age
     to; as, grief ages us.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Age \Age\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Aged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Aging}.]
     To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age; as, he
     grew fat as he aged.
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           They live one hundred and thirty years, and never age
           for all that.                            --Holland.
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           I am aging; that is, I have a whitish, or rather a
           light-colored, hair here and there.      --Landor.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  age
       n 1: how long something has existed; "it was replaced because of
            its age"
       2: an era of history having some distinctive feature; "we live
          in a litigious age" [syn: {historic period}]
       3: a time in life (usually defined in years) at which some
          particular qualification or power arises; "she was now of
          school age"; "tall for his eld" [syn: {eld}]
       4: a late time of life; "old age is not for sissies"; "he's
          showing his years"; "age hasn't slowed him down at all";
          "a beard white with eld"; "on the brink of geezerhood"
          [syn: {old age}, {years}, {eld}, {geezerhood}]
       5: a prolonged period of time; "we've known each other for
          ages"; "I haven't been there for years and years" [syn: {long
          time}, {years}]
       v 1: begin to seem older; get older; "The death of his wife
            caused him to age fast"
       2: grow old or older; "She aged gracefully"; "we age every
          day--what a depressing thought!"; "Young men senesce"
          [syn: {senesce}, {get on}, {mature}, {maturate}]
       3: make older; "The death of his child aged him tremendously"
          [ant: {rejuvenate}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  135 Moby Thesaurus words for "age":
     Bronze Age, Dark Ages, Depression Era, Golden Age, Ice Age,
     Iron Age, Jacksonian Age, Middle Ages, New Deal Era, Platonic year,
     Prohibition Era, Silver Age, Steel Age, Stone Age, abidingness,
     aboriginality, aeon, ages, ancien regime, ancientness,
     annus magnus, antiquate, antiquity, atavism, become extinct,
     become obsolete, blue moon, caducity, century,
     cheat the undertaker, cobwebs of antiquity, constancy, continuance,
     cycle, cycle of indiction, date, day, days, decline,
     defeat of time, defiance of time, develop, diuturnity, dodder,
     durability, durableness, duration, dust of ages, eld, elderliness,
     eldership, endurance, epoch, era, eternity, fade, fail, florid,
     fossilize, fust, generation, get along, get on, glacial epoch,
     great age, great year, grow, grow old, grow up, hoary age,
     hoary eld, indiction, inveteracy, lastingness, life, lifetime,
     long, long standing, long time, long while, long-lastingness,
     long-livedness, longevity, lose currency, maintenance, maturate,
     mellow, molder, month of Sundays, obsolesce, old age, old order,
     old style, oldness, outdate, perdurability, perennation,
     period of existence, perish, permanence, perpetuity, persistence,
     primitiveness, primogeniture, primordialism, primordiality,
     right smart spell, ripe, ripen, rust, senectitude, senescence,
     senility, seniority, shake, shrivel, sink, stability, standing,
     steadfastness, superannuate, survival, survivance, time, totter,
     turn gray, turn white, venerableness, wane, waste away, wither,
     wizen, wrinkle, years, years on end
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Age
     used to denote the period of a man's life (Gen. 47:28), the
     maturity of life (John 9:21), the latter end of life (Job
     11:17), a generation of the human race (Job 8:8), and an
     indefinite period (Eph. 2:7; 3:5, 21; Col. 1:26). Respect to be
     shown to the aged (Lev. 19:32). It is a blessing to communities
     when they have old men among them (Isa. 65:20; Zech. 8:4). The
     aged supposed to excel in understanding (Job 12:20; 15:10; 32:4,
     9; 1 Kings 12:6, 8). A full age the reward of piety (Job 5:26;
     Gen. 15:15).
     

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  AGE. The time when the law allows persons to do acts which, for want of
  years, they were prohibited from doing before. See Coop. Justin. 446.
       2. For males, before they arrive at fourteen years they are said not to
  be of discretion; at that age they may consent to marriage and choose a
  guardian. Twenty-one years is full age for all private purposes, and the may
  then exercise their rights as citizens by voting for public officers; and
  are eligible to all offices, unless otherwise provided for in the
  constitution. At 25, a man may be elected a representative in Congress; at
  30, a senator; and at 35, he may be chosen president of the United States.
  He is liable to serve in the militia from 18 to 45. inclusive, unless
  exempted for some particular reason.
       3. As to females, at 12, they arrive at years of discretion and may
  consent to marriage; at 14, they may choose a guardian; and 21, as in males,
  is fun Age, when they may exercise all the rights which belong to their sex.
       4. In England no one can be chosen member of parliament till he has
  attained 21 years; nor be ordained a priest under the age of 24; nor made a
  bishop till he has completed his 30th year. The age of serving in the
  militia is from 16 to 45 years.
       5. By the laws of France many provisions are made in respect to age,
  among which are the following. To be a member of the legislative body, the
  person must have attained 40 years; 25, to be a judge of a tribunal de
  remiere instance; 27, to be its president, or to be judge or clerk of a
  court royale ; 30, to be its president or procurer general; 25, to be a
  justice of the peace; 30, to be judge of a tribunal of commerce, and 35, to
  be its president; 25, to be a notary public; 21, to be a testamentary
  witness; 30, to be a juror. At 16, a minor may devise one half of his,
  property as if he were a major. A male cannot contract marriage till after
  the 18th year, nor a female before full 15 years. At 21, both males and
  females are capable to perform all the act's of civil life.  Toull. Dr. Civ.
  Fr. Liv. 1, Intr. n. 188.
       6. In the civil law, the age of a man was divided as follows: namely,
  the infancy of males extended to the full accomplishment of the 14th year;
  at 14, he entered the age of puberty, and was said to have acquired full
  puberty at 18 years accomplished, and was major on completing his 25th year.
  A female was an infant til 7 years; at 12, she entered puberty, and acquired
  full puberty at 14; she became of fall age on completing her 25th year.
  Lecons Elem. du Dr. Civ. Rom. 22.
       See Com. Dig. Baron and Feme, B 5, Dower, A, 3, Enfant, C 9, 10, 11, D
  3,  Pleader, 2 G 3, 2 W 22, 2 Y 8; Bac. Ab. Infancy and Age; 2 Vin. Ab. 131;
  Constitution of the United States; Domat. Lois Civ. tome 1, p. 10; Merlin,
  Repert. de Jurisp. mot Age; Ayl. Pand. 62; 1 Coke Inst. 78; 1 Bl. Com. 463.
  See Witness.
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  AGE, n.  That period of life in which we compound for the vices that
  we still cherish by reviling those that we have no longer the
  enterprise to commit.