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adolescent, n. and a.|ædəʊˈlɛsənt|
[as n. a. Fr. adolescent (15th c.) ad. L. adolēscent-em growing up, a youth, prop. pr. pple. of adolēsc-ĕre to grow up: see adult. The subst. use is the commoner in L., and much earlier in Fr. and Eng. than the adj.; the latter is probably taken direct from L.]
A. n. A person in the age of adolescence; a youth between childhood and manhood.
1482Monk of Evesham (1869) 103 A certen adolescente a yonge man. 1495Caxton Vitas Patr. (W. de Worde) i. li. 104 bb, He admonested..the adolescentes as his chyldren. 1815W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. LXXVI. 498 Conveying, without indecency, to adolescents many facts concerning the human frame.
B. adj. Growing towards maturity; advancing from childhood to maturity.
1785Cowper Tirocin. 219 Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, Detain their adolescent charge too long. 1809J. Barlow Columb. viii. 149 Unfold each day some adolescent grace. 1878B. Taylor Pr. Deukal. iii. i. 100, I see Near manhood in thy adolescent limbs. |