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

  Senile \Se"nile\, a. [L. senilis, from senex, gen. senis, old,
     an old man: cf. F. s['e]nile. See {Senior}.]
     Of or pertaining to old age; proceeding from, or
     characteristic of, old age; affected with the infirmities of
     old age; as, senile weakness. "Senile maturity of judgment."
     --Boyle.


     [1913 Webster]
  
     {Senile gangrene} (Med.), a form of gangrene occuring
        particularly in old people, and caused usually by
        insufficient blood supply due to degeneration of the walls
        of the smaller arteries.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  senile
       adj : mentally or physically infirm with age; "his mother was
             doddering and frail" [syn: {doddering}, {doddery}, {gaga}]

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

  56 Moby Thesaurus words for "senile":
     aged, aging, ancient, anile, childish, childlike, crabbed,
     debilitated, declining, decrepit, doddered, doddering, doddery,
     doited, dotard, doting, dotty, enfeebled, failing, feeble, fogy,
     fogyish, forgetful, fossilized, fuddy-duddy, gerontal, gerontic,
     infirm, mossbacked, moth-eaten, mummylike, old, old fart, old fogy,
     old-fogy, old-fogyish, palsied, papery-skinned, ravaged with age,
     rickety, run to seed, rusty, senescent, shaky, shattered,
     shriveled, simple, stodgy, stricken in years, stuffy, timeworn,
     tottering, tottery, weak, withered, wizened
  
  

















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