Nonage

4 definitions found

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

  Nonage \Non"age\, n. [LL. nonagium, from L. nonus ninth, novem
     nine.] (Eccl.)
     The ninth part of movable goods, formerly payable to the
     clergy on the death of persons in their parishes. --Mozley &
     W.
     [1913 Webster]



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

  Nonage \Non"age\, n. [Pref. non- + age.]
     Time of life before a person becomes of age; legal
     immaturity; minority.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           The human mind . . . was still in its nonage.
                                                    --Coleridge.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  nonage
       n : any age prior to the legal age [syn: {minority}] [ant: {majority}]

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

  21 Moby Thesaurus words for "nonage":
     Nina from Carolina, callowness, dewiness, ennead, enneastyle,
     freshness, greenness, immaturity, inexperience, infancy, juiciness,
     juniority, minority, nine, nonagon, nonuplet, novena, rawness,
     sappiness, undevelopment, unripeness