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单词 age
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agen.

Brit. /eɪdʒ/, U.S. /eɪdʒ/
Forms: Middle English ayge, Middle English eage, Middle English hagge, Middle English–1500s aege, Middle English–1600s aage, Middle English– age, 1500s aidge, 1500s aige, 1500s hage, 1600s adge; Scottish pre-1700 aage, pre-1700 adge, pre-1700 aghe, pre-1700 aidge, pre-1700 aig, pre-1700 aig, pre-1700 aige, pre-1700 ayge, pre-1700 eage, pre-1700 edge, pre-1700 ege, pre-1700 eig, pre-1700 1700s– age.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French aage, age.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman aege, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French age, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French, French †aage, †eage, Old French, Middle French aige, Middle French aaige (c1100 as edage ; French âge ) life span or period of existence of any person, animal, or thing (c1100, originally with specific reference to a person's life span), length of time that a living thing has lived (c1160), definite number of centuries (c1160), adulthood, legal majority (13th cent.), period of time, era (13th cent. or earlier), particular period or stage of life (13th cent.), old age (beginning of the 14th cent. or earlier), generation to which a person belongs (15th cent.), lifetime taken as a rough measure of time (16th cent.) < Anglo-Norman and Old French aé , eé , Old French aet , eié , hie , etc. (early 12th cent.; c1100 as edet ; see below) + -age -age suffix. Compare Old Occitan atge , (Dauphiné) eiajo (first half of the 13th cent.). Anglo-Norman and Old French aé , eé , etc., is < classical Latin aetāt- , aetās length of time a person has lived, appropriate age, majority, period of time or life, person or people of a particular age or period of life, age group, youth, old age, whole period of a person's life, lifetime, human life, passage or lapse of time, era, generation, contracted < aevitāt- , aevitās < aevum time, past time, future time, eternity, long period of time, age, lifetime, life ( < the same Indo-European base as o adv.; compare aevum n.) + -tās (see -ty suffix1; compare -ity suffix). Compare similarly Old Occitan etad, etat (end of the 12th cent.), Catalan edat (14th cent.), Spanish edad (c1200; late 12th cent. as †edat), Portuguese idade (13th cent.), Italian età (13th cent.; last quarter of the 12th cent. as †itate, first half of the 13th cent. as †etate, mid 13th cent. as †etade).In sense 8c originally after classical Latin saeculum (see secle n.), in later use partly also after French siècle (see siecle n.). With sense 11a compare French âge (1819 or earlier in specific geological use). A number of spellings from the Middle English and early modern periods are influenced by contemporary French forms which have two vowels in hiatus position.
I. A period of existence, and related senses.
1.
a. A naturally distinct section of a person's or animal's existence; a particular period or stage of life. Often with defining word or phrase specifying the stage.middle, old, school, third age, etc.: see the first element. See also the age of reason at reason n.1 Phrases 1d, age of innocence at innocence n. Additions 4, etc.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [noun] > period or stage of life
agec1275
c1275 Kentish Serm. in J. Hall Select. Early Middle Eng. (1920) I. 222 (MED) At Middai..be tokned þo men of xxxti wyntre oþer of furti, for þe nature of Man is of greater..hete ine þo age.
c1330 Seven Sages (Auch.) (1933) l. 400 He þat schal, in þin eld age, Binime þe þin heritage.
1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes i. ix. sig. Biiij In tyme to come of theyre flowryng aage.
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. C.ijv The fearefulle dedes and enterpryses doone by Caius Jul. Cesar in his yonge age.
1574 T. Newton tr. G. Gratarolo Direct. Health Magistrates & Studentes sig. Ciij This age of Consistence is the very flowre and prime of a mans life.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. vii. 143 One man in his time playes many parts, His Acts being seuen ages . View more context for this quotation
1690 J. Dryden Don Sebastian v. 117 Th'effects of doting Age: Vain doubts, and idle cares, and over-caution.
1736 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum (ed. 2) (at cited word) The Life of Man is divided into four different Ages, Infancy, Youth, Manhood, Old Age.
1751 Chambers's Cycl. (ed. 7) (at cited word) The Age of puberty commences at 14, and ends at about 25.
1802 W. Wordsworth To Young Lady in Morning Post 12 Feb. An old age, alive and bright, And lovely as a Lapland night.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 297 Stupor..is found much more frequently during the age of adolescence than in any other period of life.
1927 F. M. Thrasher Gang i. iv. 75 The gang age, from twelve to sixteen, is a very definite stage in a boy's life.
2006 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 3 Aug. e2/4 Looking for love in late middle age..is a frustrating ordeal.
b. esp. The latter part of life, when the physical effects of ageing become apparent, old age. Also: an instance of this, a particular type of old age.Often literary and poetic, sometimes as a personification.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > age > old age > [noun]
eld971
old agec1330
agec1380
last agea1382
oldc1385
aldereldea1400
winterc1425
vilessec1430
annosityc1450
senectute1481
the black ox1546
golden years1559
years1561
great1587
afterlife1589
setting sun1597
antiquity1600
chair-daysa1616
the vale of yearsa1616
grandevity1623
green old age1634
eldship1647
senioritya1688
the other side of the hill1691
the decline of life1711
senectude1756
senility1791
senectitude1796
post-climacteric1826
Anno Domini1885
senium1911
golden age1946
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 3481 (MED) Y am sumdel stryken on age.
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 114 A gode clerk wele in age.
1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xviii. xxvii. sig. bbvijv/1 Houndes in aege [a1398 BL Add. 27944 elde] haue the Podagre.
1517 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1928) xi. 49 Who in youth lyst nothynge to lerne He wyll repent hym often in his age.
1599 W. Shakespeare et al. Passionate Pilgrime (new ed.) sig. B6 Crabbed age and youth cannot liue together.
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. i. 71 Age with his stealing steppes, hath clawed me in his clutch. View more context for this quotation
a1631 J. Donne Poems (1633) 335 Before age, deaths twilight, Thy Soule rest.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. xii. 217 Many grow old before they arrive at age . View more context for this quotation
1715 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad I. i. 96 Thus spoke the Prudence and the Fears of Age.
1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 100 A youth of labour with an age of ease.
1807 Ld. Byron Hours of Idleness 179 Age will not every hope destroy, But yield some hours of sober joy.
1858 E. H. Sears Athanasia xiv. 122 The moroseness and peevishness of age.
1864 Ld. Tennyson Grandmother xxv, in Enoch Arden, etc. 126 Age is a time of peace, So it be free from pain.
1921 Arts Apr. 40/1 He will gain in strength as the years go by until the frailties of age begin to manifest themselves.
2000 K. Nerburn Calm Surrender iii. 54 Though her body is failing her, her spirit has not been hardened by the indignities of age.
c. The symptoms or qualities associated with old age; mental or physical changes, esp. deterioration, brought about by old age. Frequently with with (in early use also †for).
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the world > life > source or principle of life > age > old age > [noun] > decrepitude or senility
unelda1300
agec1405
decrepity1576
decrepitness1600
decrepitude1603
superannuation1655
decrepitage1670
decrepidity1760
caducity1769
Struldbrugism1778
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Reeve's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) Prol. l. 13 But ik am oold me list no pleye for age.
a1450 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Harl. 4866) (1897) l. 2271 Othir feble folk with age I-broke.
1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. i. xii. 7 Galba was spent and feeble for age.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. iii. 222 Thou canst helpe time to furrow me with age . View more context for this quotation
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iii. v. 33 When the age is in, the wit is out. View more context for this quotation
1692 Mass. Province Acts & Resolves I. 30 Persons who through age or infirmity are unable to manage their affairs.
1709 Tatler No. 15. ⁋1 They only who die of age may be said to have arrived at [their due date].
1792 W. Withering Bot. Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 2) III. 199 Saucers rather paler and whiter than the leaves, brownish with age.
1877 L. Morris Epic of Hades i. 50 The failing ear and eye, the slower limbs, Whose briefer name is Age.
1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island I. i. iii. 24 He was hunched, as if with age or weakness.
1923 Fourth Estate (N.Y.) 13 Jan. 29/2 Let's do this before age catches up with us ere our ship has come in.
2008 H. Cass Supplement your Prescription iv. 89 Lately—and maybe it's just age—I've been having sore muscles.
2.
a. The point in life which typically brings maturity, or which by custom or law is fixed as doing so; adulthood. Frequently in Law. Now usually in of age at Phrases 1a.See also full age n.1, nonage n.1, age of consent n. at consent n. 1d, age of discretion at discretion n. Phrases 1a, etc.
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the world > people > person > adult > [noun] > adulthood or maturity
full eldOE
agec1275
douthc1275
full agec1390
maturitya1475
years?1532
just age1541
just years1541
consistencea1613
grown years1645
legal age1658
adultness1663
adultagea1670
muttonhood1841
adulthood1850
the world > people > person > adult > [noun] > adulthood or maturity > legal maturity
agec1275
elda1300
age of discretion1395
years of discretiona1402
discretionc1485
lawful years1548
age of consent1809
the age of reason1884
c1275 Kentish Serm. in J. Hall Select. Early Middle Eng. (1920) I. 222 (MED) At undren ha sent men in to his winyarde, þet a turneþ into his seruise of age of man [Fr. en la hie de xx anz].
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) John ix. 21 Axe ȝe him, he hath age [L. aetatem habet], speke he of him silf.
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. M.iij A lorde of noble bloude, and somewhat entred in age.
1614 E. Grimeston tr. P. Matthieu Hist. Lewis XI 117 A Prince if he hath age should be verie warie not to make this excuse.
1749 J. Salthouse Wood's Compl. Body Conveyancing II. 768 In case a Bastard Child shall die before Age.
1769 Will of John Thurman in W. Johnson Rep. Court of Chancery N.-Y. (1816) 1 222 If both die before they come to age..I give it [sc. the property] to my nephew, John.
1842 J. D. Chambers Jurisd. High Court Chancery over Infants Introd. 22 Whether the ward marry before age or after age,..her right to a settlement is preserved.
1945 Amer. Law. Rep. Annotated 155 698 (heading) Limitation over on death before age is reached.
2011 S. Ginn in S. D. Fogle Martha Grimes walks into Pub 139 His uncle dies and he is relegated to an orphanage, where he lives until reaching age.
b. Hence: any particular length of life which qualifies a person (occasionally a thing) for something, usually specified.See also over-age adj., under-age adj. and n., of an age to at Phrases 3b.
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c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham Poems (1902) 61 Of ham þat scholde ywedded be Her þe age þou myȝt lerne.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Heb. xi. 11 Sare bareyn, took vertu into conseyuing of seed, ȝhe, bi sydis, or withoute [a1425 L.V. aȝen] the tyme of age [L. tempus aetatis].
1504 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 97 Tyll he be of lawfull age to be prystyd.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Heb. xi. 11 When she was past age. [So in Geneva, 1611, and Revised.]
1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 197 Bels of gold,..which they put in when they are of age to use Women.
1690 tr. G. Buchanan Hist. Scotl. ix. 290 We are neither of us past Age, You to beget, and I to bear, more [children].
1719 G. London & H. Wise J. de la Quintinie's Compl. Gard'ner (ed. 7) 41 The time that Kernel Fruit-Trees require before they attain to a fit Age for Bearing.
1795 Z. Swift Syst. Laws Connecticut I. i. vii. 213 When there are minors of age to chuse guardians..the judges of courts of probate..must notify them to appear, and elect guardians.
1872 E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. 138 Every man of lawful age holding lands in capite of the crown..was bound to give suit and presence in Parliament.
1908 H. Alger Bernard Brooks' Adventures xxiii. 192 It is rather presumptuous in me to answer your advertisement, but there was no limitation of age.
1976 A. Haley Roots (1977) xxvii. 116 Maidens of marriageable age—fourteen and fifteen.
2003 Daily Tel. 5 Nov. i. 13/2 A few years ago when the legal age for buying fireworks was increased from 16 to 18.
3.
a. The length of time (sometimes given as a specified number of years) that a living thing, as a person, animal, plant, etc., has lived.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [noun]
eldOE
yearsOE
oldc1175
statea1350
agea1387
springs1597
seniority1776
standing1789
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 411 (MED) Þe ȝere of oure Lord xi hondred, of his kyngdom þrittene, of his age [L. aetatis suae] foure and fifty..he was i-schote.
c1405 (c1380) G. Chaucer Second Nun's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 128 This mayden sholde vn til a man Ywedded be, that was ful yong of age.
1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 46v The said Alexander began to regne in the .xviij. yer of his eage.
1504 Will of John Osburne in Trans. Essex Archæol. Soc. (1878) 1 167 I bequeth ij shepe of a yere age for my fore Drove.
1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates York xi. 3 Prudent for their age.
1611 Bible (King James) Mark v. 42 Shee was of the age of twelue yeeres. View more context for this quotation
1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. ii. xi. sig. Q1 Those, who are of the same Age with me.
1696 W. Hope tr. J. de Solleysel Compl. Horseman i. v. 19 A little before a Horse hath attained to the Age of thiry Months..he hath twelve Foal-teeth.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The Age of a Hart, &c. is chiefly judg'd of by the Furniture of his Head.
1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 332 If however the court has..any doubt of the age of the party,..it may..examine the infant himself.
1795 C. Hutton Math. & Philos. Dict. I. 457/1 Expectation of Life..is the..number of years of life, which a person of a given age may..expect to enjoy.
1808 Ann. Reg. 112/2 We can trace the age of a tree..by allowing a year for every outer circle.
1886 Dict. National Biogr. VIII. 189/1 He had already overpassed the seventieth year of his age.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 956/2 The male [of the Andaman Islands] matures when about fifteen years of age, marries when about twenty-six.
1995 Wine Spectator 28 Feb. 20/1 One could also consider the regional differences in..winemaking practices: vine age, rootstock, grape clone, [etc.].
2011 Church Times 14 Oct. 22/1 In 1938, at the age of 64, he married a removed cousin..who was then half his age.
b. The length of time a thing has been in existence, or the time elapsed since its beginning or creation.In early use applied spec. to the world.
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a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 7 Þe blak [numbers] seruith for þe age of þe world, þe rede seruith for þe annotacion of Crist.
1542 T. Elyot Bibliotheca at Arca Noe A greatte vessell, whiche god commanded Noe to make [before]..the vniuersal floudde, the yere of the age of the worlde. 1652.
1697 T. Burnet Theory of Earth (ed. 3) iv. 21 The difference there is betwixt the Greek, Hebrew, and Samaritan Copies of the Bible, makes the Age of the World altogether undetermin'd.
1758 B. Plaisted Jrnl. Calcutta to Busserah (ed. 2) 125 The Governor's Palace..[has] the Arms of Venice over the Gate, with an Inscription shewing the Age of the Building.
1797 Encycl. Brit. V. 523/1 [By some calculations the lava] came from the volcanic crater at least 14000 years ago; and consequently..the age of the earth..cannot possibly be less.
1838 C. Lyell Elem. Geol. xii. 268 The relative age of the superior and inferior portions of the earth's crust.
1877 Spirit of Times 24 Nov. 440/3 Wide-awake, rustling Denver... There is no other city of its age and population that has so many large and beautiful buildings.
1975 Changing Times June 28/1 Expenses for tune-ups..depend chiefly on the age of your car.
2009 Old-house Jrnl. Oct. 72/2 Depending on the age of the house, faucets might display dual taps.
c. With preceding word: the stage of a specified aspect of development reached by a person, expressed as the age at which a similar degree of development is attained by an average person.educational, mental age, etc.: see the first element. Recorded earliest in reading age n. at reading n.1 Compounds 3.
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1906 Elem. School Teacher 6 315 There is the necessity of forming the reading habit at the reading age of fourth and fifth grade.
1907 Med. Notes & Queries Sept. 201 The physical developmental age of the colored child should be put down as three to four years in advance of that of the white child.
1910 Jrnl. Proc & Addr. 48th Ann. Meeting (National Educ. Assoc.) 876 There has recently been made the very helpful distinction between the chronological, anatomical, physiological, and psychological age of children.
1955 Washington Post 21 Feb. 43/3 If his actual age in years is eight and his intellectual age is eight, his I.Q. is rated as 100.
1989 J. E. Miller Addictive Relationships i. 38 We also feel the pressures of our physiological age, our biological ticking clock.
2004 B. Buxton Damaged Angels x. 192 One tiny, naive eighteen-year-old with an emotional age of eight went to the movies with her social worker.
4. The whole lifespan or period of existence of any person, animal, or thing; the ordinary or expected duration of life. Now rare.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > [noun] > course or span of life
life-dayOE
year-daysOE
timeOE
dayOE
lifeOE
life's timeOE
livelihoodOE
yearOE
lifetimea1300
life-whilea1300
for (also to) term of (a person's) lifea1325
coursec1384
livingc1390
voyage1390
agea1398
life's dayc1425
thread1447
racea1450
living daysc1450
natural life1461
lifeness1534
twist1568
leasec1595
span1599
clew1615
marcha1625
peregrination1653
clue1684
stamen1701
life term1739
innings1772
lifelong1814
pass-through1876
inning1885
natural1891
life cycle1915
puff1967
the world > time > duration > [noun] > lifespan (of material things, etc.)
age1535
life1703
lifetime1822
longevity1842
lifespan1898
natural life1900
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. vi. i. 291 Age [L. etas] is space of þe lif of a best, and bigynneþ from þe concepcioun and endeþ and faileþ aftir elde.
a1425 (a1400) Titus & Vespasian l. 46 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1903) 111 289/1 Nowe schal I towche of her seruage, That euer schal last þe worldes age.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms lxxxix. 10 The dayes of oure age iij score yeares and ten.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. iii. 211 God I pray him, That none of you may liue your naturall age, But by some vnlookt accident cut off. View more context for this quotation
1611 Bible (King James) Gen. xlvii. 28 The whole age of Iacob was an hundred fourtie and seuen yeeres. View more context for this quotation
1677 S. Speed Prison-pietie 55 All those delights that do the Senses please, Are one days age, an Ephemerides.
1703 N. Rowe Fair Penitent v. i. 1811 Shortens her Father's Age, and cuts him off.
1744 J. Thorley Μελισσηλογια viii. 178 Of the Age of Bees. Here also I find authors divided in their opinions.
1853 Encycl. Brit. I. 234 Of the ages of the lower animals little is known.
1890 Jrnl. Compar. Med. & Vet. Arch. 11 341 The age of the horse can be estimated at eighteen to twenty years.
2007 C. McConkie Man named Peleg 99 It was a time when the age of a man suddenly showed a dramatic decrease.
5. Maturity in some product or material; the condition or quality acquired through the process of ageing.
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the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [noun] > state of being prepared or ready > state of being ripe or mature
ripenessOE
ripeOE
melchheadc1350
perfectiona1398
perfecturea1552
maturity1568
matureness1661
age1795
development1803
coming of age1881
1647 J. Trapp Comm. Evangelists & Acts 66 (Luke v. 39) Age clarifies wine, and ripens it.
1795 in W. Guthrie's Syst. Mod. Geog. II. 549 The brandy, which is distilled from peaches, when it has age, is an excellent liquor.
1857 W. W. Huse Dis. Tobacco 31 The sweating process is one which increases the age of tobacco very rapidly.
1859 J. Lang Wanderings in India 383 Bring several bottles of our Madeira, for theirs I do not like..It has not age.
1914 T. P. Terry Terry's Japanese Empire 380 The..copper-bronze roofs,..their many gables covered with the green patina of age.
1972 H. W. Yoxall Enjoyment of Wine v. 39 White wine deepens its tone with age.
1999 BBC Good Food Apr. 7/1 It's mild, fruity and improves with age; buy freshly cut from a good cheese shop.
2000 M. Evans et al. World Food: Italy 95 This fruit-driven wine intensifies..with age.
6. Cards (esp. Poker). The eldest hand in a game (see eldest hand n. at eldest adj. 5), which entitles opening of the betting; chiefly in to have (also hold) the age. Also: the person, sitting on the dealer's left, who holds this. Occasionally in extended use.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > poker > [noun] > players > type of player
age1843
ante man1851
ante1853
straddler1863
bluffer1888
sandbagger1940
chip leader1985
1843 S. S. Prentiss in J. D. Shields Life & Times S. S. Prentiss (1883) xvii. 334 You can't expect me to take a hand in this game when he..has the age of me.
1875 T. Frere Hoyle's Games (rev. ed.) 327 The player entitled to bet first may withhold his bet until the others have bet round to him, which is called ‘holding the age’; and this, being an advantage, should as a general rule be practised.
1882 C. Welsh Poker 47 Before the dealer begins to deal the cards, the player next to his left, who is called the ante-man, or age, must deposit in the pool an ante not exceeding one-half the limit previously agreed upon.
1907 ‘M. Twain’ in N. Amer. Rev. 184 569 How could I talk when he was talking? He ‘held the age’, as the poker clergy say.
1983 R. L. Frey According to Hoyle (new ed.) 11 When no player before the age makes a voluntary bet in the first betting interval, the age may..call the blind raise.
II. A period of time, and related senses.
7. A distinctive era or period of human history (whether real or mythical), typically characterized by some distinguishing condition or circumstance, by the dominance of a specified person, group, or regime, or by the prevalence of a particular outlook, technology, phenomenon, etc. Now usually with modifying word or postmodifying of-phrase. Cf. era n. 4a, period n. 3.golden, information, ice, iron, jazz, jet, steam, stone age, etc.: see the first element. See also the Age of Enlightenment at enlightenment n. 1b, the Middle Ages at middle age n. 2, the age of reason at reason n.1 Phrases 1d, Age of Aquarius n. at Aquarius n. 3, etc.
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the world > time > period > [noun]
timeOE
daysOE
sitheOE
agec1325
siecle1483
secle?1533
Iron Age1592
cycle1842
time span1880
the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [noun]
agec1325
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 192 Of þe world..Þe verste age & time was fram oure ferste fader adam To noe.
?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (BL Add. 10340) (1868) ii. met. v. l. 1323 Blysful was þe first age of men.
?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 35 In me, Noe, þe secunde age in dede be-gynnyth.
1554 D. Lindsay Dialog Experience & Courteour ii. 1948 in Wks. (1931) I Of Weris, said he the gret outtrage Began in to the secunde aige.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. i. 174 I would with such perfection gouerne Sir: T'Excell the Golden Age . View more context for this quotation
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 17 The last great Age, foretold by sacred Rhymes.
1710 in W. W. Wilkins Polit. Ballads (1860) II. 68 (title) The age of wonders.
1736 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum (ed. 2) (at cited word) The Generality of Chronologers agree in making seven Ages or Periods [of the World].
1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. x. 247 In the age of the Antonines, the Goths were still seated in Prussia.
1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I II. xii. 310 The age of heroism..was now settling into the age of polity.
1856 Times 1 Dec. 6/4 So priceless a gift transmitted to us from the age of the Reformation.
1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind 193 The Stone Age falls into two divisions, the Unground Stone Age, and the Ground Stone Age.
1920 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics XI. 43/2 The name [sc. Sadducees]..was given to them by..the Pharisees, who borrowed it from an earlier age.
1927 Polit. Sci. Q. 42 620 This age of mass propaganda and coercion.
1932 H. V. Morton In Search of Wales vi. 96 The flood-tide of the Tudor age.
1959 M. McLuhan Let. 16 May (1987) 254 The citizen of the Electronic Age is a do-it-yourself man.
1994 W. Shaw Spying in Guru Land (1995) p. x An extraordinary vision that..a new Arthurian age would dawn.
2010 Independent 29 Nov. (Viewspaper section) 5/1 In the age of the internet, these blowbacks have got nastier and more frequent.
8.
a. Usually in plural. A long but indefinite period of time. Formerly also (as a mass noun): †time in general; the passage of time (obsolete).
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > duration > [noun] > long duration or lasting through time > a long time > marked by succession of generations
agea1398
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvi. xxxvi. 844 Gold is now in þe most worschipe. ‘So age þat passeþ..chaungeþ tymes of þing.’
1505 in J. D. Marwick Rec. Convent. Royal Burghs Scotl. (1870) I. 541 Throw all aigeis to cum.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 2 Of aunters ben olde of aunsetris nobill and slydyn vppon shlepe by slomeryng of age.
1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 1st Pt. sig. A3 Unhappie Persea, that in former age Hast bene the seat of mightie Conquerors.
1611 Bible (King James) Eph. iii. 5 Which in other ages was not made knowen vnto the sonnes of men. View more context for this quotation
1654 Trag. Alphonsus i. 12 H'as tane his leave of me for age and age.
1713 J. Addison Cato iv. iv. 103 How is the toil of fate, the work of ages, The Roman Empire fallen!
1794 J. Gifford Reign Louis XVI 184 The Corvée,..which had for ages been a source of constant oppression to the country people.
1816 J. Wilson City of Plague i. i. 39 But one dread year Hath done the work of ages.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Locksley Hall in Poems (new ed.) II. 106 Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs.
1927 Amer. Mercury Feb. 205/1 The European Jews developed through the ages a distinct culinary art.
1978 P. Matthiessen Snow Leopard ii. 127 The deep canyon it [sc. the flood] has carved across the ages, with its extraordinary layers of folded rock.
2003 Daily Tel. 16 May 24/1 A fascinating glimpse into what brides have worn down the ages.
b. In hyperbolical use. A very long time. Now usually in plural.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > duration > [noun] > long duration or lasting through time > a long time
seven daysOE
a while1297
dreichc1440
dreightc1450
yearsa1470
age1577
week1597
montha1616
patriarch's age1693
length1697
eternity1700
a month of Sundays1759
a week of Sundays1822
a week of Saturdays1831
dog's age1833
forever1833
while1836
aeon1880
donkey's years1916
light year1929
yonks1968
1577 G. Whetstone Remembraunce Gaskoigne sig. Bv What is this world?.. A moments ioy, an age of wretched dole.
1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream v. i. 33 To weare away this long age of three hours. View more context for this quotation
1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xvii. sig. Q6 In the dead age of night.
a1704 T. Brown Let. in Wks. (1707) I. ii. 92 This very Minute seems an Age.
1753 S. Foote Englishman in Paris ii. 37 'Tis an Age since I saw you.
1813 J. Austen Pride & Prejudice I. xvii. 198 The two ladies were delighted to see their dear friend again, called it an age since they had met. View more context for this quotation
1889 W. S. Gilbert Gondoliers ii. 32 As at home we've been remaining—We've not seen you both for ages.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xviii. [Penelope] 708 I suppose he died of galloping drink ages ago.
1950 A. Buckeridge Jennings goes to School (1996) i. 9 Me? Oh, I've been here donkey's years. Ages and ages.
1998 S. Waters Tipping Velvet xviii. 415 I haven't been here for an age... Not since Lily died.
2010 N. Meminger Jazz in Love 226 It had been ages since I felt this way.
†c. Chiefly literary. A century. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > period > year > [noun] > period of specific number of years > a century
secle?1533
siecle?1533
age1587
centenary1591
century1591
hundreda1656
cent.1687
centennium1828
1587 J. Bridges Def. Govt. Church of Eng. x. 935 Seculum an age, is commonly vnderstoode for an hundreth yeares.
1594 T. Blundeville Exercises iii. i. xxxvi. f. 167v The space of an hundred yeares, called in Latine seculum, and in English an age.
1635 E. Pagitt Christianographie (1636) iii. 11 The end of the tenth, and beginning of the eleventh Age, after the incarnation.
1679 A. Lovell tr. F. Pomey Indiculus Universalis 165 What is an age? It is the span of an hundred years.
1749 J. Wesley Let. 4 Jan. in Wks. (1872) X. 43 For they [sc. Jerome and Hilarion] did not live within the first three ages.
a1798 T. Pennant Tour on Continent (1948) 48 The church was built in the 9th age.
1876 R. Dabney Sensualistic Philos. 19th Cent. i. 1 The philosophy which was dominant in France at the close of the eighteenth century..is now striving again to establish its dominion..towards the close of the nineteenth age.
1920 Month June 527 Such an edifice..was emphatically the product..of..the thirteenth age of Christianity. That century..was one of the greatest in the history of religion.
9. The period of time contemporary with the lifetime of any individual; (with possessive) the generation to which someone belongs. (Used in fixing an approximate date, but not as a measure of time.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > period > [noun] > contemporary with the lifetime of anyone
age?a1400
the world > life > source or principle of life > [noun] > course or span of life > period of time contemporary with
age?a1400
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 61 (MED) Malcolme mad homage tille Edward our kyng, þat he & alle his age of Ingland suld hold þat þing.
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Monk's Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 99 I by ordre telle nat thise thynges..After hir ages as men writen fynde.
1557 Bible (Whittingham) Mark xiii. 30 This age shal not passe, tyl all these thynges be done.
1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. 5 S. Hierome..the best linguist without controuersie, of his age.
1670 I. Walton Life R. Hooker 104 in Lives A slander which this Age calls Trepanning.
1733 A. Pope Impertinent 5 Adieu to all the Follies of the Age.
1736 T. Lediard Life Marlborough II. 223 What a Heap of insinuative Scandal..is here thrown upon the greatest Man of his Age.
1830 T. Carlyle Jrnl. in J. A. Froude T. Carlyle: First Forty Years (1882) II. iv. 90 The sin of this age is dilettantism.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 183 What, in our age, would be called gross perfidy and corruption.
1858 H. Staunton Plays of Shakespeare I. 385/1 (note) The gentlemen of Shakespeare's age appear to have dined about eleven o'clock.
1905 Princeton Theol. Rev. July 386 She was a woman of her age and her environment, a child of the Renaissance.
1996 Guardian 6 Nov. (Society section) 4/2 He is..one of the most radical thinkers of our age.
2004 B. Greene Fabric of Cosmos iii. 43 Newton and others in his age had even used the term ‘aether’ in their descriptions of absolute space.
10. A lifetime taken as a rough measure of time; a generation. Usually in plural. Now archaic and literary except as merged with sense 8a.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > source or principle of life > [noun] > course or span of life > as a measure of time
progenyc1350
agec1405
generation1629
c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) Prol. l. 59 Where kan ye seye in any maner age That heighe god defended mariage By expres word.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iii. l. 4258 (MED) My maister Galfride..Þe name of whom shal passen in noon age, But euer ylyche..shyne.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms cxliv. 13 & thy dominion endureth thorow out all ages.
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost i. ii. 106 Ar. Is there not a Ballet..of the King & the Begger? Boy. The worlde was very guiltie of such a Ballet some three ages since. View more context for this quotation
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xxxiii. 203 The Writers of the New Testament lived all in lesse then an age after Christ's Ascension.
1718 Free-thinker No. 19. 1 A Duke is..not to be seen in a Countrey Church above once in an Age.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. xiv. 280 A severe revenge for the barbarities they had groaned under during more than two ages.
1821 J. Galt Ann. Parish xxii. 212 There was such a smashing of the poor weans, as had not been known for an age.
1853 Encycl. Brit. II. 233 Nestor is said to have lived three ages when he was ninety years old.
1919 Hahnemannian Monthly June 347 The materia medica of the grandfathers is good enough not only for the grandchildren but for ages to come.
2001 B. K. Das tr. P. Ray Primal Land lxxii. 212 How many generations of Bondas had rested on the sindbore..! Through how many ages had the branches of the overhanging simul tree provided shade!
11. Geology.
a. A major division of geological time; spec. one that is a subdivision of an epoch, corresponding to a stratigraphic stage.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > age or period > [noun]
age1813
group1829
period1833
aeon1879
group1886
moment1933
1813 R. Kerr tr. G. Cuvier Ess. Theory Earth 181 Man..would have the glory of restoring the history of thousands of ages which preceded the existence of the race, and of thousands of animals that never were contemporaneous with his species.
1830 Philos. Mag. 2nd Ser. 8 108 He is mistaken in supposing that we confounded the iron sand of Sonthofen with rocks of the tertiary age.
a1856 H. Miller Testimony of Rocks (1857) i. 53 In the Oolitic ages insects become greatly more numerous.
1879 A. Winchell Syllabus Course Lect. Gen. Geol. 13 Time:—Arranged in Epochs, Periods, Ages and Times or Æons.
1898 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 6 353 The terms, Group, System, Series, Stage, and the correlative time-divisions, Era, Period, Epoch, Age, are to my mind very satisfactory.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. iii. 50 Great deposits of chalk..are particularly characteristic of the geological ages that came between the Jurassic and the Eocene.
1963 A. Moorehead Cooper's Creek xv. 199 In the Cambrian age such a sea extended south from the Gulf of Carpentaria over western Queensland and South Australia.
1971 Nature 12 Feb. 480/2 In historical geology, the subdivision of periods into epochs and ages..is usually defined by unconformities.
1992 Atlantic Feb. 105/1 The K-T is not the biggest of the Big Five mass extinctions that mark the close of various geological ages, but it is the most recent.
2006 Earth-Sci. Rev. 78 218/1 A final problem..is that the Pliocene and Quaternary would then overlap in time, with the Gelasian Age belonging to both of them.
b. With modifying word or postmodifying of-phrase: a period of geological time in which particular kinds of organism flourished, as dinosaurs, reptiles, ferns, etc. Cf. sense 7.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > period > [noun] > of the world or history
eldOE
timeOE
worldOE
oldc1175
timea1382
epoch1629
era1741
lapse1758
age1827
canon1833
olam1870
1827 tr. G. Cuvier Ess. Theory Earth (ed. 5) 295 We are now at least in the midst of a fourth succession of land animals,—that, after the age of reptiles, the age of palæotheria, the age of mammoths, and that of mastodons and megatheria, has come the age in which the human species..peaceably governs and fertilizes the earth.
1865 S. Haughton Man. Geol. vi. 136 He [sc. Dana] proposes to call the lower Palæozoic the Age of the Mollusks.
1874 Evening Hours 1 366/2 During the age of ferns the period of flowers was not yet. The conditions of the earth were unsuitable for them.
1907 Proc. Royal Geogr. Soc. Australasia: S. Austral. Branch 9 19 This was, indeed, the reptile age, an age in which a vast crowd of frightful and gigantic lizards spread terror throughout the antideluvian seas.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1006 We live in what has sometimes been called the ‘Age of Insects’, for there are well over a quarter of a million different kinds of these animals.
1978 M. Lambert Fossils 69 The Carboniferous period is often called ‘the age of ferns’.
2003 Science 21 Nov. 1316/1 The Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) impact at the end of the dinosaur age.

Phrases

P1.
a. of (formerly also †at, †to) age: at the age at which one has an adult's legal rights and obligations (varying from period to period and region to region; in Britain and the United States now usually at 18 or 21 for most purposes). to come of age: to attain adult age and status; (in extended use) to reach full development or maturity. [After Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French d'age adult (12th cent.), having reached the age of majority (1293 or earlier, frequently in estre d'age ; French d'âge ); compare classical Latin suae aetātis and post-classical Latin aetatis esse (from late 12th cent. in British sources).
With to come to age (see quot. c1425) compare Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French venir en age (1283), venir a age (beginning of the 14th cent. or earlier).]
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > person > adult > [adjective]
mucha1154
of (formerly also at, to) agec1300
perfect agec1384
full-growna1393
ripea1393
greatc1515
adult1531
maturate1556
mellowed1575
mellow1592
full-aged1596
mature1609
timed1611
grown-upa1640
adulted1645
grown1645
upgrown1667
matured1805
coming of age1858
c1300 (?c1225) King Horn (Cambr.) (1901) l. 1324 (MED) To kepe þis passage Fram horn, þat is of age.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) v. l. 2837 (MED) Whan he cam to age, He resigned hool his herytage.
a1500 (?c1400) Sir Triamour (Cambr.) (1937) l. 690 (MED) Of iustyng canste thou ryght noght, For thou art not of age.
1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism 243 Every Burgess at age..hath power to trade, and bear office, in the City.
1682 in Notes & Queries (1921) 163 436/2 He has left my neighbour Shatterdon's eldest son 6 thousand a year att least to be managed tell he comes att age by trustees for him.
1709 C. Cibber Rival Fools i. 1 Sir, I'm no Boy, I have been at Age this Half-year.
1723 H. Rowlands Mona Antiqua Restaurata xi. 172 His Cousin Alan..assisted the young Prince, when he came to Age, with a powerful Army to recover his father's..Royal Sceptre.
1775 S. Johnson Let. 15 July (1992) II. 248 To hinder my dear Harry from mischief when he comes of age.
1816 J. Dunkin Hist. Bicester v. 25 The heir came of age, and was admitted to the possession of the estate.
1833 Philol. Museum 2 221 Every people in an early stage of civilization, before the nation comes of age.
1926 S. T. Warner Lolly Willowes i. 12 On Henry's birth Everard laid down twelve dozen of port against his coming of age.
1927 H. H. Hemming & D. Hemming tr. A. Siegfried (title) America comes of age.
1992 Chem. in Brit. 28 326 Goddard and others have proclaimed that quantum chemistry came of age in 1970.
2009 A. M. Brown-Comment Dawn of Promise 99 My parents..will put up some resistance to my plans, but I am now of age and hope they will understand.
†b. within age: = under-age adj. and n. 1. Obsolete (U.S. Law in later use). [After Anglo-Norman and Law French deinz age, dedeinz age (1275 or earlier).]
ΚΠ
a1325 Statutes of Realm (2011) i. 4 Þei he be mad kniȝt wiþinne age, neuer þe later he sal bileue in his louerdes warde forte he be of age.
c1480 J. Fortescue in Camden Misc. (1924) XIII. 14 [Some text lost]..doughteris wythyn age, of whiche the eldest is boot xj yere oold.
1517 in A. T. Bannister Registrum Caroli Bothe, Episcopi Herefordensis (1921) 32 If the sayde Roger happen to die within age.
1642 tr. J. Perkins Profitable Bk. v. §327. 144 If I dye, my heire within age.
1797 F.-X. Martin Notes Decisions Superior Courts N.-Carolina i. 36 The owner dies, his heir within age.
1840 Rep. Judicial Decisions S. Carolina III. 287 The cause of action accrued to the wife, while she was within age, and before her intermarriage with the plaintiff.
P2.
a. age of the moon (also moon's age and variants): the number of days since the occurrence of the new moon. Now archaic and historical. [Compare post-classical Latin lunae aetas (8th cent. in a British source), Old French, Middle French aage de la lune, French âge de la lune (13th cent.; rare before late 17th cent.).]
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > period > a month or calendar month > [noun] > lunar month > number of days since new moon
age of the moonc1425
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. l. 2775 (MED) Þe ferþe parte Of þe mone was schad with new liȝt..And complete was seuen daies of hir age.
1555 L. Digges Prognostication Right Good Effect sig. Eiv Multiply the age of the Moone, by 4, and devide by 10.
1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse sig. Tiv (table) Moones age howe to finde it at all times.
1676 P. S. (title) A table of the moons age throughout the year, and tyde-table.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Moon To find the Moon's Age. To the Day of the Month add the Epact of the Year, and the Months from March inclusive.
1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. xlv. 540 Hence it happens, that in every period of 19 years, the moon's age is the same on the same day of the year.
1909 Pop. Mech. Sept. 299/1 There is a small disk, B, numbered from 1 to 30, giving days of the moon's age.
2005 L. Holford-Strevens Hist. Time ii. 24 In other calendars of this type, the age of the waning moon is counted backwards.
b. age of the day (also day's age): the number of hours since the day began; the time, the hour. Now rare (archaic in later use).
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > particular time > [noun] > the time or time of day
tidea900
timeOE
time of the dayc1225
hourc1315
clocka1616
age of the day1632
1632 J. d'Espagne Anti-duello 53 Kill him before you depart out of these lists, by that..age of the day you haue assigned you by vs.
a1640 P. Massinger Bashful Lover iv. i. 50 in 3 New Playes (1655) Of what age is the day?
1872 T. Norton Hermit 48 Counting the day's age on a sun-dial near.
1909 Pop. Mech. Nov. 634/1 Get rid of the idea that a certain number, as 7 o'clock, represents the age of the day at all places.
c. age of the tide: the time that has elapsed during the tidal cycle, or since a particular phase of the moon; (in later use) spec. the time elapsed between the new or full moon and the subsequent appearance of the spring tide.
ΚΠ
1684 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 14 680 The Bar..yet affords considerably differing soundings in the same Age and time of the tides, according to the season of the Year.
1787 Scots Mag. Nov. 527/1 The town [sc. Fraserburgh]..has a safe and commodious harbour, with 11 to 16 feet water, according to the age of the tide.
1822 Philos. Mag. 60 336 Generally speaking, the age of the tide when it arrives at London Bridge amounts to about twelve hours.
1834 W. Whewell in Jrnl. Franklin Inst. 14 New Ser. 305 The length of time required for this purpose I have called the Age of the Tide. Mr. Lubbock, following Laplace, calls it the Retard.
1926 H. A. Marmer Tide iii. 48 This retard in the response of the tide is called the ‘age of the tide’ and is generally ascribed to the effects of friction.
2004 D. Pugh Changing Sea Levels iii. 52 The age of the tide is an old but still useful term applied to the interval between the time of new or full moon and the tide of maximum semidiurnal spring range, which usually occurs one or two days later.
P3.
a. of an age (with): of the same or a similar age (compared to someone else). [After Middle French d'un aage (last quarter of the 14th cent.; 1564 in the passage translated in quot. 1579).]
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [adverb] > of the same age
of an age (with)1579
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 942 Mithridates, the sonne of Ariobarzanes, was his familiar frend and companion (for they were both in maner of an age [Fr. pour-ce qu'ils estoient tous deux quasi d'un aage]).
1613 G. Chapman Memorable Maske Inns of Court sig. E (margin) Called Twynns being both of an Age.
1707 tr. M. Alemán Life Guzman d’Alfarache II. 267 That Cousin of mine, who had the greatest Kindness for him, being near of an Age with him.
1781 tr. Comtesse de Genlis Children's Ball ii. viii, in Theatre of Educ. III. 66 You are thirteen, and I am in my thirteenth year, so we are of an age.
1834 Metropolitan 10 137 While yet young he married a very amiable lady nearly of an age with himself.
1934 H. G. Wells Exper. in Autobiogr. II. viii. 627 We were both about of an age; to be exact he was six months younger than I.
2010 H. Sounes Fab i. iv. 58 Although Martin was eight years the senior, Brian's mature manner made him appear to be of an age with the producer.
b. of an age to: at the age when one is old enough, or is expected, to (do or be something).
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [adverb] > at a specific age to do something
of an age to1664
1664 E. Waller et al. tr. P. Corneille Pompey i. iii. 9 My self though Young Yet of an Age [Fr. dans un aage] to make that Beauty known Which Heav'n had lent me.
1760 Mod. Part Universal Hist. XX. xix. 342 The duke's only daughter..should espouse, as soon as he was of an age to marry, the Infant Don Henry.
1785 Ann. Reg. 1783 Characters 14/2 The females [of Sumatra], before they are of an age to be clothed have..a modesty-piece.
1868 C. Collingwood Rambles Naturalist i. 19 Children of an age to toddle about..are often tethered by a string to the middle of the boat.
1916 G. B. Shaw Androcles & Lion i. 9 The men, if of an age to bear arms, will be given weapons to defend themselves..against the Imperial Gladiators.
1961 C. G. L. Du Cann Love-lives Charles Dickens x. viii. 189 The eldest boy Charles was of an age to be flying off and building a nest of his own.
2010 Independent 27 Oct. 27/2 The audience..[was] rich in frontline military..experience, and of an age to be Atlanticist by temperament.
P4. at (a person's) age: when a person is of his or her current age (with reference to what is usual, to be expected, or appropriate for that age).
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [adverb] > at a specific age
at (a person's) age1604
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. iv. 68 At your age The heyday in the blood is tame, it's humble. View more context for this quotation
1779 H. L. Thrale Diary 1 Aug. in Thraliana (1942) I. 399 Abortions and Profluvia are not easily got through at my Age.
1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey II. iv. vii. 233 At your age, life cannot be the lost game you think it.
1896 H. Belloc Bad Child's Bk. Beasts 5 A manner rude and wild Is common at your age.
1919 G. B. Shaw Heartbreak House i, in Heartbreak House, Great Catherine, & Playlets of War 28 Do you suppose that at my age I make distinctions between one fellow creature and another?
2005 Independent 3 Jan. (Review section) 4/5 40 really doesn't have to be old these days—lots of men are only just starting to settle down at his age.
P5. to look one's age: see look v. Phrases 2d.
P6. age before beauty: used (esp. humorously) to give precedence or show deference to an older person, now often (in extended use) as an invitation to a companion to go first when passing through a door, etc.
ΚΠ
1843 J. S. Robb Streaks Squatter Life 94 Old age, allays, afore beauty!—your dady furst, in course.]
1851 Western Hort. Rev. Nov. 101/1 Age before beauty, is a good maxim, and, even as republicans, we must submit with a good grace to the decisions of a King.
1886 Yale Courant 12 June 235/1 In passing from the dining room, always precede your fair companion, throwing oft at the same time some witty conceit, as for instance—‘age before beauty’.
1938 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant 14 Oct. 10/1 The two ladies were trying to get out of a doorway at the same time. Clare [Boothe] drew back and cracked, ‘Age before beauty, Miss Parker.’ As Dotty swept out, she turned to the other guests and said, ‘Pearls before swine.’
1995 A. Heard Speaking of University ix. 284 They approached a door, and she hurried to open it for him saying ‘Age before beauty’.
2003 Brand Strategy (Electronic ed.) 2 Jan. 22 Age before beauty: Choosing staff with more experience may be more expensive but it pays dividends in terms of social skills and intelligent problem solving.
P7.
age and area n. Zoology and Anthropology (attributive) designating a hypothesis that other things being equal, the area occupied by a taxonomic group, culture, vocabulary item, etc., is directly proportional to the length of time it has been in existence.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > biology > theories > [adjective] > other theories
animalcular1753
zoocentric1882
organismic1886
pre-bacteriological1892
pre-bacteriologic1902
age and area1915
neurogenic1915
maturationist1968
society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > [adjective] > doctrines or theories > of cultural development
age and area1915
unilineal1957
possibilistic1962
1915 J. C. Willis in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 206 337 Genera will obviously tend to follow the age and area rule more closely than species.
1933 R. U. Sayce Primitive Arts & Crafts vii. 191 The ‘age and area’ theory..assumes that, if two traits are invented successively at, and diffuse from, a common centre, the trait first invented will have spread further than the second.
1997 J. P. Mallory in J. P. Mallory & D. Q. Adams Encycl. Indo-European Culture 584/1 The ‘age and area’ hypothesis was extended to linguistics to determine the antiquity of lexical items.
P8.
a. to act one's age: to behave in a manner expected of or appropriate to a person of one's age.
ΚΠ
1900 Med. Cent. Oct. 314/1 He did not look nor act his age, though for nearly three score of years he had worked for the interests of his fellowmen unceasingly.
1930 Washington Post 2 Dec. 10/3 He [sc. the gifted child] has his troubles with grown-ups, too. He is criticized because he acts his age.
1968 Times 27 Jan. 7/6 All of us of all nations must act our age.
2003 P. Reizin Don't try this at Home viii. 223 This era of kidults, adulteenies, and no one acting their age any more.
b. colloquial (originally U.S.). be (also act) your age: (as an imperative) don't behave as though much younger; ‘don't be childish!’
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > childish folly, childishness > be childish [verb (intransitive)] > refrain from
be (also act) your age1925
1925 New Yorker 26 Sept. 18/2 (caption) Be Your Age.
1932 Amer. Speech June 328 Act your age, ‘don't be childish’; ‘stop the foolishness’.
1948 ‘N. Shute’ No Highway iii. 70 Do you think the Inspection would have let this aircraft fly if there was any danger of that sort of thing? Be your age.
1951 S. Kaye-Smith Mrs. Gailey ix. 180 Rosamund..spoke irritably. ‘Oh, be your age!’
2000 W. Self How Dead Live (2001) xii. 279 Don't be a fool, girl... Act yer age—think!

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
a.
age class n.
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1871 W. W. Hall Health by Good Living ix. 171 The curve shows the number of deaths in the different age classes.
1929 Notes & Queries Anthrop. (ed. 5) ii. 56 Those Age-Fellows who have been initiated together may be looked upon as an Age-Set or Age-Class.
2002 Northern Woodlands Spring 9/1 The selection method is designed to..have three or more age classes [of trees] represented in the stand.
age determination n.
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1878 Rec. Geol. Surv. India 11 290 The age-determinations thus deduced from the marine fossils and the plant-remains..lead to results of considerable divergence.
1926 R. W. Lawson tr. G. von Hevesy & F. A. Paneth Man. Radioactivity xxvi. 216 Age determination from the Helium content.
2010 C. M. Aelion in C. M. Aelion et al. Environmental Isotopes Bioremediation & Biodegradation xi. 353 Boltwood used the idea that lead was the end product of the decay of uranium to make age determinations on uranite using U/Pb ratios.
age distribution n.
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1860 Trans. Hist. Soc. Lancs. & Cheshire 12 48 There must, formerly, have been a considerable disturbance, by emigration, of the age-distribution of the population of the northern and southern regions.
1934 Planning 1 xxvii. 5 The death-rate like the birth-rate, has fallen fast in recent years, and here again the age-distribution of the population must be considered as well as the crude rate.
2011 S. F. Martin Nation of Immigrants ix. 179 The majority of the Hungarian refugees..in need of resettlement were under the age of 30, with approximately 6,000 being unattached youths between the ages of 14 and 18. This age distribution is not surprising.
age grading n.
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1895 Rep. Royal Comm. Secondary Educ. V. 362 The seats and desks should be graduated in height to the size of the pupils, and not according to the age-grading usually adopted.
1948 K. Davis Human Society iv. 107 Reliance upon age-grading is very prominent in African societies.
2010 Choice Guide Baby Products (ed. 13) vi. 115 The Standard also covers labelling, age grading and packaging.
age level n.
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1902 Criterion Mar. 143 A reserve accumulation [sc. in a life insurance plan] which would be sufficient at age 55 to maintain the proposed rate at that age level..for life.
1972 S. Fisher Female Orgasm (1973) xv. 390 A tremendous volume of pseudofact is being transmitted to people of all age levels about the nature of sexual response.
2005 Frederick (Maryland) News-Post 18 Jan. a12/5 As any racquetballer knows, good players come in all sizes and shapes and age levels.
age profile n.
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1937 C. Wissler in F. J. Brown & J. S. Roucek Our Racial & National Minorities 44 The..age profile..of a population changes probably in unison with trends in mode of life.
1989 Independent 2 Dec. 44/7 Honda is hoping the Concerto will bring the age profile of its customers down to something more in line with the image it is nurturing.
2001 Financial Times 27 Jan. 4/2 The typical age profile of its members is believed to be well over 50.
age range n.
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1897 K. Pearson Chances of Death I. viii. 321 There has been a great rise in both coefficients of variation, owing to the wider age range taken in order to secure a large series.
1968 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 114 1388/1 The subjects were all within the age range 16 to 60 years and of British ancestry.
2006 Good Woodworking June 60/3 The size of the playhouse is important to meet the needs of play activity and also the age range of the children in question.
age scale n.
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1859 Farmer's Mag. Mar. 193/1 Gradually descending on the age scale came the roan Sir James, by Sir Samuel, out of Nectarine Blossom.
1908 W. McDougall Introd. Social Psychol. iv. 109 The time of ripening of any instinct..is liable to be shifted forwards or backwards in the age-scale during the course of racial evolution.
2010 L. J. Danks Finding Right Man for You xvi. 135 Women often are open to dating men younger than they are, but won't go very far up the age scale with men who are older.
age span n.
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1893 Census of India 1891 I. iv. 72 In the next age-span of 25 to 29 years, the proportions of the male population..sink.
1968 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 114 960/2 Especially in the rural areas... the age-span between grandchild and grandmother is so small that the latter can easily serve as a replacement [for a parent].
2008 Daily Tel. 4 Aug. 19/2 People do change their habits over the age span.
age structure n.
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1888 Publ. Amer. Econ. Assoc. 3 33 If the deaths occurred in regular proportions from year to year, the age structure of a population might be represented by an equilateral triangle.
1965 Math. in Biol. & Med. (Med. Res. Council) iii. 101 Otherwise the differences between the groups would have reflected to some extent merely the differing age-structures of the various populations.
2003 Independent 8 Oct. 17/2 The age structure of the..developed nations.
age war n.
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1932 W. Lewis Doom of Youth iv. i. 201 The ‘Age-War’ is really a Father-and-Children-war.
2010 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 24 June 17/1 The people who are currently young..will rebel against caring for the growing percentage of the population that is old... ‘There will be age wars, and chronological cleansing.’
b. Objective, as age-adorning, age-dispelling, age-defying, etc.
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1857 Ladies' Repository July 30/2 Clothed in sadder robes than when he takes an inmate from these age-defying homesteads.
1884 N.E.D at Age sb. Age-adorning, -Dispelling.
1937 Amer. Home Apr. 108/1 (advt.) These sensational shingles..are made from age-enduring asbestos-cement.
2005 E. Matthews & E. M. Russell Rationing Med. Care vii. 67 Restricting the access of older people to high-technology life-prolonging and age-defeating medicine.
c. Instrumental.
age-cracked adj.
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1850 E. B. Browning Poems (new ed.) II. 378 A beldame's age-cracked voice.
1922 ‘R. West’ Judge i. iv. 183 He looked distastefully at the age-cracked walls, stained with patches of damp.
2008 G. R. R. Martin Busted Flush (2009) 409 Shelves of books, their dark covers age-cracked.
† age-despoiled adj. Obsolete rare
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1878 B. Taylor Prince Deukalion ii. i. 54 Lover to maids, to me a brother, son To women age-despoiled.
age-dimmed adj.
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1597 C. Middleton Famous Hist. Chinon vi. sig. G4v He neuer opened his age dimmed eyes to beholde the chearefull countenance of any creature.
1832 W. C. Bryant Poems (new ed.) 57 I shall see the day..with an age-dimmed eye.
1989 T. Hoag Man of her Dreams iv. 82 She pressed a frail-looking hand to her heart as if feeling it beat would somehow sharpen her age-dimmed memory.
2002 Fodor's Montréal & Québec City 65 Its crowded dining room, with big tables and age-dimmed paint.
† age-encamped adj. Obsolete rare
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1913 R. Kipling Songs from Bks. 157 Age-encamped Oblivion Tenteth every light that shone!
age-enfeebled adj.
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1767 Pindarick Ode on Painting 2 This languid age-enfeebled mind.
1807 J. Barlow Columbiad v. 191 Their maim'd, their sick, their age-enfeebled sires.
2001 C. C. Rutter Enter Body Pref. p. xi The..king whose age-enfeebled arms can no longer heave a sword.
† age-established adj. Obsolete rare
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1882 Wallace's Monthly Dec. 822/2 The age-established doctrine that in the progeny of any species..definite characteristics in the father are always intensified by like definite characteristics in the mother.
1925 R. Graves Welchman's Hose 49 Age-established brooks run dry.
age-gnarled adj.
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1847 C. Thomson Autobiogr. Artisan ix. 400 The age-gnarled, time-bleached oaks bare their venerable heads to the fury of the black, belching storm.
1933 W. de la Mare Fleeting & Other Poems 101 The age-gnarled thorn.
2002 K. R. Stark Night of Sharks 54 His age-gnarled, callused hand felt so hard, that I could have been grasping a lobster.
age-moulded adj.
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1848 A. Smith Nat. Hist. Idler upon Town xi The..headache-provoking, temper-spoiling, age-moulded..‘standard legitimacy’ that assisted to swell the repertory of Inchbald's British Theatre.
1925 D. H. Lawrence St. Mawr 77 The rocks..heavy with age-moulded roundnesses.
2009 M. Silf Compass Points 222 The..age-molded, rain-stained stones.
† age-peeled adj. Obsolete
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1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 343 Age-pealed pinnacles.
age-stricken adj.
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1764 ‘C. Morell’ Tales Genii II. 129 Shall the Age-Stricken Wife of Sadak..become the Favorite of Amurath!
1916 E. O. Milne in J. Troy King Plates (1993) 49 The age-stricken but still dreaded medicine-man of the tribe.
2006 W. Pross in M. Goldie & R. Wokler Cambr. Hist. 18th-cent. Polit. Thought ii. viii. 220 The Germans demanding to take their place as a young, ruthless nation in the community of age-stricken civilisations.
age-struck adj.
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1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles i. Introd. 4 Some age-struck wanderer gleans few ears of scatter'd grain.
1955 Bar Bull. (N.Y. County Lawyers' Assoc.) Jan. 142/2 Proclaiming himself ‘an age-struck’ member of the court, [the retiring] Chief Judge Lewis said [etc.].
2010 Women's Rev. Bks. July 20 (heading) Age-struck and seeing strong.
age-worn adj.
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1597 C. Middleton Famous Hist. Chinon vii. sig. H2v Those hearbes, that in the age worne limmes of a bloodles man, cals backe fresh spring.
1755 tr. in Monthly Rev. 13 437 The age-worn dotard plodding yields his breath, At last.
1851 N. Hawthorne Twice-told Tales II. xix. 267 So age-worn and woful are they.
1933 W. de la Mare Fleeting & Other Poems 135 An image of age-worn stone.
1994 Sight & Sound Oct. 56/3 MacLaine..lets her sad eyes and age-worn features do the talking.
C2.
age-adjusted adj. (of a measurement, standard of comparison, etc.) adjusted to compensate for differences in the ages of the populations or groups under consideration, esp. in a statistical study.
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1919 A. R. Perry Preventable Death in Cotton Manuf. Industry (U.S. Bureau Labor Statistics Bull. No. 251) i. 34 In order to make any valid comparison between the death rates of the two groups for any long period, it is necessary to use age-adjusted death rates.
1968 Times 3 Dec. 10/7 The age-adjusted death rate from diabetes among white male holders.
2006 J. C. Buckley Space Physiol. vii. 149 Endurance training increases both chamber size and wall thickness. After training is stopped, cardiac size reduces back toward age-adjusted norms.
age-ago adj. that happened (or seemed to happen) an age ago, or in the distant past.Apparently an isolated use.
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1923 R. Kipling Irish Guards in Great War I. 325 That age-ago retreat from Mons.
age allowance n. a tax allowance or other financial benefit granted to persons over a certain age, esp. old age pensioners.
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1976 Economist 10 Apr. 79/1 A £60 increase in child tax allowance; the age allowance goes up £60 for the single, £130 for the married.
1982 H. Wiesner Which? Bk. Saving & Investing xxv. 236 Anyone who is 64 or over before the start of the tax year..can claim age allowance.
2002 Which? Tax Saving Guide 41/1 Tax-free income..doesn't count against you when working out whether you're eligible for age allowance.
age-appropriate adj. suitable with regard to age; spec. appropriate for children of a particular age.
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1955 Rev. Educ. Res. 25 482 They..found general agreement upon a pattern of slightly limited and ‘age-appropriate’ activities.
1989 M. Beattie Beyond Codependency iv. xix. 226 What can we do in our families, schools, and communities to reach the children? What do they need? They need the same things we need on an age-appropriate level.
2006 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 15 Oct. i. 8/3 It's hard to meet men who are age-appropriate because they're interested in younger women.
2012 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 9 Jan. b9 Broadcasters or media channels who make safe and age-appropriate content paramount to their output.
age bracket n. a category into which people of similar age (esp. those within a specified age range) are placed for purposes of classification.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > [noun] > a kind, sort, or class > according to age
age group1876
age bracket1926
1926 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 1 Aug. 2/5 It would be the guess of the present writer that the great majority would be found in the higher age brackets.
1962 Economist 15 Dec. 1131/2 Couples in the 45–65 age bracket—the so-called ‘empty nesters’, whose children have grown up and who have become bored with their large houses.
2005 J. Diamond Collapse (2006) i. 60 The largest group of immigrants consists of ‘half-retirees’ or early retirees in the age bracket 45–49.
† age-coeval adj. Obsolete having the same age or date of origin; contemporary in age.Apparently an isolated use.
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1843 N. Hawthorne in U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Dec. 627/2 How kindly he [sc. Fire] was,..bearing himself with such gentleness, so rendering himself a part of all life-long and age-coeval associations.
age-cold adj. poetic and literary made cold by age.
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1785 L. Booker Poems I. 34 With age-cold blood bespread.
1950 W. de la Mare Inward Compan. 86 Cliffs of age-cold stone.
age-date v. transitive to establish the age or date of (an object, specimen, etc.) by scientific examination; cf. age dating n.
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the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > arrange chronologically [verb (transitive)] > use methods of dating
carbon-date1953
radiocarbon-date1956
carbon–14 date1957
age-date1967
1967 Marine Geol. 5 303 Three samples of calcareous material were age-dated by 14C at the Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory.
1988 T. Ferris Coming of Age in Milky Way (1989) i. xiii. 251 The scientist who comes along years later to age-date their remains is..reading a clock that started when the host died.
2009 Quaternary Sci. Rev. 28 1732 (caption) Every index point for the North Carolina sea-level database has been age dated using radiocarbon techniques.
age-dated adj. (a) classified or classifiable by age; spec. marked with a date as an indication of the age of a product; (b) having been subjected to age dating.
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the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > [adjective] > branches of chronology or methods of dating
geochronological1815
synchronological1836
Montelian1937
rubidium–strontium1941
dendrochronological1959
age-dated1984
the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > [adjective] > branches of chronology or methods of dating > dated by specific methods
pollen-dated1936
carbon-dated1951
radiocarbon-dated1953
age-dated1984
1957 World Politics 10 16 ‘Age-dated’ products are nothing new to American processors or consumers.
1983 N.Y. Times 26 Dec. a18/1 Americans' speech is age-dated.
1984 A. C. Duxbury & A. Duxbury Introd. World's Oceans iii. 84 Research done on age-dated layers of volcanic rock shows that the polarity..reverses.
1991 Los Angeles Times 28 Nov. (San Diego County ed.) (N. County Focus section) 3 Each item is age-dated and the spa will replace any unused product after one year.
2010 Atmospheric Environment 44 2577/2 Age-dated lake sediments are a commonly used tool for reconstructing historical trends in atmospheric Hg deposition.
age dating n. a process of establishing the age of geological deposits, archaeological remains, etc., by means of scientific examination (as by isotopic dating); (also) a date ascertained by such a process.
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the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > [noun] > assignment to a time or dating > dating methods
fluorine test1895
cross-dating1939
age dating1941
carbon–14 dating1950
radiocarbon dating1950
carbon dating1952
radiodating1962
radiometric dating1963
TL-dating1972
the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > [noun] > assignment to a time or dating > dating methods > date ascertained by
age dating1941
carbon date1950
radiocarbon date1950
carbon–14 date1951
1941 Geogr. Rev. 31 81 Age dating will be by dynasties only, since more accurate reference is impracticable in many cases.
1963 Special Paper Geol. Soc. Amer. No. 73. 95 More than 1000 age datings on precambrian rocks of North America have been compiled.
1974 F. J. Sawkins et al. Evolving Earth iii. 65 The 40K–40Ar method has been a favorite for age dating.
1987 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 74 1590/2 Age datings were derived from associated dinoflagellate and microfaunal assemblages.
2010 Computers & Geosci. 36 559/1 Age dating of rocks and minerals is one of the key methods for studying geological processes.
age-dependent adj. dependent on the age of a person or thing or on the elapsed time in a process; correlated with or determined by age, esp. increasing age.
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1948 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 34 601 (title) On the theory of age-dependent stochastic branching processes.
1967 Child Devel. 38 1245 The older Ss [= subjects] consistently performed on a higher level than the younger children, a finding which substantiates Piaget's theory of age-dependent cognitive development.
1991 Afr. Archaeol. Rev. 9 125 They..mistook some age-dependent characters for breed differences.
2011 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 17 Apr. mm. 30 Several cancers are strongly, often exponentially, age-dependent.
age discrimination n. discrimination or differentiation on grounds of age; (later) spec. = ageism n.
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > [noun] > discrimination or inegalitarianism > by age
age discrimination1902
ageism1969
1902 W. W. Bates Amer. Navigation xx. 323 That there is no just ground for age discrimination may be readily shown. Besides, the question is not about hull, but cargo risks.
1927 N.Y. Times 25 Sept. 15/2 The complaints concerning age discrimination become loud and insistent on the lips of the women who failed to look ahead.
1980 R. Elmore in D. S. Bell Labour into Eighties viii. 110 If the seventies were concerned with the inequities of sex discrimination, undoubtedly the eighties will experience tensions with regard to age discrimination.
2007 Daily Tel. 7 Mar. 21/6 I can demonstrate on a daily basis just how unjustified age discrimination is.
age-fellow n. [compare earlier age mate n.] a person who is of a similar age to another; a peer or contemporary.
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the world > time > relative time > simultaneity or contemporaneousness > [noun] > contemporary
contemporany?a1475
contemporant1577
time-fellow1577
age mate1582
contemporana1600
coeval1605
coetane1610
collateral1614
contemporary1614
concurrent1622
coequal1631
contemporanean1633
coetanean1636
contemporista1641
temporary1649
synchronist1716
yealing1728
fellow1844
age-fellow1845
1845 T. Cooper Purgatory of Suicides Ded. Right noble age-fellow, whose speech and thought Proclaim thee other than the..throng.
1954 J. G. Peristiany in Instit. Primitive Society iv. 44 To-day the council of elders, which includes..age-fellows of the wrongdoer, puts a collective curse on his head.
1991 Antiquity 65 829/1 My age-fellows and I, whose professional careers over the past 50 years..will scarcely see the opening of the next century.
age gap n. a disparity or gap between the ages (and frequently therefore the views or values) of two people or groups, now esp. of two people in a romantic relationship; cf. generation gap n. at generation n. Compounds.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [noun] > age gap
age gap1907
1907 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 2 Mar. 478/1 I do not believe that there is any reason either in this age-gap or in this sex-differentiation for dissociating the child's disease from that of the elderly.
1963 A. Heron Towards Quaker View of Sex 60 The child finds himself to be..isolated because of a large age gap.
1980 Washington Post 18 Nov. b2/2 You'll find women in their 40s who think nothing of going out with a man in his 60s. They'll look at you as if you're crazy when you mention the age gap.
2006 Ireland's Own Feb. 22/1 She may have hesitated at first. Apart from the age gap of 21 years, he was no handsome hulk.
age grade n. Cultural Anthropology and Sociology any one of a number of ritually marked life stages through which groups of similarly-aged people within a tribe, community, etc., move together; cf. age set n.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [noun] > age group
age grouping1862
age group1876
age grade1894
age set1929
1894 N. S. Shaler U.S.A. I. iv. 194 In every tribe there was a great variety of ranks and offices, and there often was a system of promotion from rank to rank, such promotion changing the relative age grade.
1906 N. W. Thomas Kinship Organisations i. 2 The other kind of association, to which the name age-grades is applied, is composed of a series of grades, through which..each man passes in succession, until he attains the highest.
2008 D. L. Hodgson in B. G. Smith Oxf. Encycl. Women in World Hist. (Electronic text) at Age Grades Approximately fifteen years later these men came together for another collective ritual that marked their promotion to the age grade of ‘elders’.
age-graded adj. divided or arranged on the basis of age.
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1892 Morning Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) 19 May 5/4 Changing..from straight to age-graded assessments.
1959 V. Packard Status Seekers ii. 28 Many of the new suburban towns..are rather narrowly age-graded.
2011 Croydon Advertiser (Nexis) 5 Aug. 66 Veteran Jo Quantrill topped the age graded performances with a personal best of 22.15.
age group n. a number of people (or occasionally things) classed together as being of similar age and hence having some shared features, characteristics, values, etc.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [noun] > age group
age grouping1862
age group1876
age grade1894
age set1929
the world > relative properties > kind or sort > [noun] > a kind, sort, or class > according to age
age group1876
age bracket1926
1876 Census of Ireland 1871 (C. 1377) iii. 50 in Parl. Papers (Accts. & Papers XL) LXXXI It would appear from the decrease in 1871 of the particular age-group with which we are concerned now, that the course of marriages had again become abnormal.
1904 Gen. Rep. Census Eng. & Wales 1901 147 The following Table, which gives the proportions of blind per million living at the earlier age-groups, shows [etc.].
1937 Proc. Prehistoric Soc. 3 182 To divide the sites into three age-groups merely by observing their heights above modern sea-level.
1994 E. Ehm She should Talk vii. 128 I feel like people in my age group are really discriminated against.
2010 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 10 Jan. (Week in Review section) 5/2 The idea of a phone..that..screams out its geographic coordinates..might seem spooky to older age groups.
age grouping n. the action or process of grouping together people (or occasionally things) of a similar age; the result of this, an age group.
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1862 Rep. Proc. Church Congr. 1861 79 I shall not discuss such points as that of the age-grouping.
a1942 B. Malinowski Sci. Theory of Culture (1944) vi. 57 More frequently the organization according to sex is related to..age groupings or age-grades.
1962 Punch 4 Apr. 554/3 Age-grouping would be standardised.
2010 M. Spencer Can Anything Good come from Seinfeld? 9 A veteran teacher of every age grouping imaginable.
age-harden v. (a) intransitive to undergo age-hardening; (b) transitive to subject to age-hardening.
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1921 Jrnl. Inst. Metals 26 357 Since then it had been discovered that alloys containing copper and manganese would age harden after suitable heat treatment.
?c1950 Nickel Alloy Spring Materials 6 Of these [alloys], the most useful is ‘K’ Monel which has good strength and ductility and can be age-hardened.
1988 G. Prater Snowshoeing (ed. 3) xii. 154 An area of dry snow must be packed with snowshoes before it can be cut into blocks. Walk it down evenly..and allow it 20 to 30 minutes to age harden.
1993 Woodworker June 5/3 The only metal that age-hardens is duraluminium.
2001 J. R. Davis Copper & Copper Alloys 85/3 Several of the high-copper alloys can be age hardened.
age-hardenable adj. (of metal) susceptible or subject to age-hardening.
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1928 U.S. Patent 1,674,959 1/1 A practical and efficient method for producing age hardenable alloys having different degrees of hardness.
1989 Nature 21 Sept. 184/1 Their maximum strengths are twice those available from the best age-hardenable aircraft alloys.
2007 Amer. Machinist (Nexis) 1 Dec. 52 Because many alloys are age hardenable—they get harder when heat is applied—they become stronger and more abrasive as second-phase particles form.
age-hardened adj. hardened by ageing; (esp. of metal) subjected to age-hardening.figurative in quot. 1860.
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1860 Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star 5 May 273/2 Either they understand or they are ignorant of its meaning; and, with a spirit of charity, (viewing their age-hardened, but erroneous belief on the subject,) let us presume the latter.
1939 Iron Age 5 Oct. 26/1 Localized precipitation at the grain boundaries may have a very detrimental effect in reducing the ductility of plasticity and impact strength of the age-hardened alloy.
1964 L. H. Van Vlack Elements Materials Sci. (ed. 2) xi. 315 (caption) Tensile strengths of a strain- and age-hardened alloy.
1995 S. Marty Leaning on Wind xi. 171 The ridge was bare of snow in places, covered with age-hardened drifts in others.
2010 Nation (Thailand) (Nexis) 20 Nov. Mix it all, sprinkle it with age-hardened Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese and have some local dry white Orvieto ready to wash it down.
age-hardening n. hardening which occurs as a material ages; (Metallurgy) hardening occurring in certain alloys on storage at ambient temperature, or on mild heat treatment, following quenching; cf. precipitation hardening n. at precipitation n. Compounds.
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1916 U.S. Patent 1,178,142 3/1 A properly made floating soap prepared in accordance herewith..may be free lathering and not subject to serious age-hardening.
1921 Jrnl. Inst. Metals 26 345 The extent of the age-hardening which takes place is roughly proportional to the amount of magnesium silicide in solution at the moment of quenching.
1979 Daily Tel. 31 Dec. 13/3 Motor-body steel has to be used quickly because of its age-hardening properties.
1994 J. Milne Getting Back ii. 23 Once the surface snow layers are disturbed by the wind, age-hardening is initiated and these layers become harder than the undisturbed ones underneath.
2001 R. W. Cahn Coming of Materials Sci. iii. 99 Age-hardening is a good example of a nucleation-and-growth transformation.
age-honoured adj. (of a person) revered or honoured for his or her great age or longevity; (of a thing) respected or valued because it has existed for a long period; = time-honoured adj.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] > and worthy of respect
oldlyOE
veterate1565
venerable1610
age-honoured?a1616
time-honoured1821
?a1616 Tom a Lincoln (1992) 16 Age honour'd father heauen knowes my heart how I doe honour & Respect you.
a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Old Law (1656) v. 75 Age honored shrine, time still so love you, That I so long may have you in mine eye.
1848 Veterinarian Mar. 153 We have now lying before us a copy..of that esteemed, well-thumbed, age-honoured collection of ‘recipes’ then in use at the College.
1922 A. Pound Iron Man in Industry p. xiii Others declare that it is time..to throw overboard age-honored and hard-won possessions, traditions, customs,..the baggage of society.
2011 G. A. Adelmann Cardiol. Essent. in Clin. Pract. ii. 26/2 The age-honored affirmative answer to this question may have been influenced by several factors.
age incidence n. the age distribution of new cases of a disease or other phenomenon.
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1879 Practitioner 22 310 The facts respecting age incidence here observed must not be regarded as necessarily significant of infected milk.
1976 Economist 14 Aug. 4/3 The maximum age incidence lies between 10 and 20 years and females are only slightly less affected than males.
2007 R. T. Hoppe et al. Hodgkin Dis. (ed. 2) ii. 7/1 He was the first to recognize the bimodality in age-incidence patterns of the disease.
age-lasting adj. that lasts an age, or ages; = age-long adj.
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the world > time > period > [adjective] > as long as or lasting for an age
eval1791
age-lasting1798
age-long1804
aeonic1829
olamic1856
1798 R. Wright Abridgement Five Disc. iv. 73 The proper rendering of aion is age, consequently of aconian agical, or age-lasting.
1802 N. Douglas Antidote against Deism To Vidler p. xii As the wicked shall then go away to the age-lasting punishment,..so the righteous to the age-lasting life.
1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 377 Between eternity and time a lapse..agelasting.
2005 P. W. Syltie Understanding God's Govt. iv. 128 A life..of age-lasting agony and oppression cut off from God.
age limit n. a restriction placed on the age at which something is permissible or possible.
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1862 Colburn's United Service Mag. Dec. 519 We should have wanted sailors if the age limit had been reduced to the extent asked for.
1898 Strand Mag. 15 331/2 It is doubtful whether the inexorable age limit will not preclude his inclusion in the next Conservative Ministry.
1917 Aberdeen Univ. Rev. June 259 The raising of the upper age limit [for examinees] to twenty or twenty one.
2003 Daily Star 25 Mar. 3/3 The age limit is 21 to enter a Las Vegas casino.
† ageman n. Obsolete rare an old man.
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the world > people > person > old person > old man > [noun]
old maneOE
bevara1275
beauperec1300
vieillard1475
Nestor?c1510
old gentleman1526
haga1529
velyarda1529
old fellow?1555
old sire1557
granfer1564
vecchioc1570
ageman1571
grave-porer1582
grandsire1595
huddle-duddle1599
elder1600
pantaloon1602
cuffc1616
crone1630
old boya1637
codger?1738
dry-beard1749
eld1796
patriarch1819
oubaas1824
old chap1840
pap1844
pop1844
tad1877
old baas1882
senex1898
finger1904
AK1911
alte kacker1911
poppa stoppa1944
madala1960
Ntate1975
1571 in J. Raine Depositions Courts Durham (1845) 225 Wm. Walker is an aidgeman and broken in labour.
age-matched adj. chiefly Medicine (in a medical or other scientific study) designating a control group selected to have an age profile similar to that of the group being studied; designating a member of such a control group.
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1943 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 56 166 Henry..found statistically reliable differences in pulse-rate and systolic blood pressure between a group of 200 Mongoloids..and an age-matched control group of 200 Caucasians.
1960 Amer. Jrnl. Cardiol. 5 787/2 One hundred four male survivors of acute myocardial infarction and ninety-one age-matched clinically normal men were studied.
2011 A. Bongso & E. H. Lee Stem Cells (ed. 2) 224 Due to impaired telomerase function, DC patients have shorter telomeres than age-matched controls.
age-new adj. poetic [after age-old adj.] existing in the current age, recent.Apparently an isolated use.
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1938 R. Graves Coll. Poems 176 Time was my chronicler, my deeds age-new.
age-proof adj. impervious to age; able to resist the effects of age.
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1911 Building Progress Aug. 256 (advt.) NATCO [tile] construction reduces maintenance expenses... It is age proof, warmer in winter and cooler in summer.
1928 Daily Express 7 Nov. 4 Annette Kellermann..demonstrates..that she is practically age-proof.
2004 N.Y. Times Mag. 2 May 11 (advt.) Age-proof eyes? Patent-pending formula actively helps prevent photoaging.
age set n. Cultural Anthropology and Sociology the people belonging to a particular age group or range in a community, usually one of a number of stratified bands that defines the social status and role of those within it; cf. age grade n.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [noun] > age group
age grouping1862
age group1876
age grade1894
age set1929
1929 Man Jan. 21/2 There are three age-sets to a generation.
1954 J. G. Peristiany in Instit. Primitive Society iv. 40 The initiation rituals..provide him with an age-set; that is, with a group of age-mates who remain his social co-evals through life.
2009 B.-A. Scharfstein Art without Borders v. 414 At the terrifying initiation itself, the boys of the age-set being initiated are symbolically killed.
age-specific adj. (of a condition, process, or phenomenon) specifically relating to, connected with, or affecting a particular age group or range.
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1922 Science 29 Dec. 756/2 A quite obvious and simple set of derivative functions from age specific death rates.
1949 K. Davis Human Society xxi. 600 Age-specific fertility trends show that a stationary or declining population will soon eventuate.
2010 Daily Tel. 10 Feb. 14/7 Ofsted called for..improved age-specific lessons in ‘e-safety’ and a move to ‘managed’ internet access.
age spot n. any of various spots or discolorations associated with age in a person or thing; spec. = liver spot n. at liver n.1 and adj.2 Compounds 3.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > age > old age > [noun] > sign of age
age spot1890
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [noun] > disordered pigmentation > patch of
melanosis1821
melanose1829
chloasma1877
age spot1890
lentigo1894
lentigo maligna1954
1890 Naturalists' Leisure Hour & Monthly Bull. Jan. 401/1 (advt.) [Books for sale] Dyckman J. Pathology of the Human Fluids. 248 pp... 1814..few age spots.
1920 Photoplay Nov. 105/2 (advt.) All skins..have a tendency to wrinkle and develop age spots unless nourished by proper creams.
1992 Atlanta Jrnl. 11 Sept. 3/1 For age spots on antique mirrors, rub with a wad of paper moistened with denatured alcohol.
2006 In the Know 10 Oct. 40/2 The Chromolite laser is a new treatment for removing pigmentation marks, age spots and freckles.
age-weary adj. poetic and literary made weary by age.
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1853 Servants' Mag. 16 71 Could I leave my dear village, and chapel so neat, When I guide my poor mistress's age-weary feet?
1895 W. B. Yeats Poems 147 And demons have lifted The age-weary eyelids from the eyes that of old Turned gods to stone.
2007 C. Skidmore Edward VI i. 13 Henry stands dominant in heroic pose, towering in front of his age-weary father.
age-weighted adj. weighted to compensate for differences in age, or to give greater relative importance to people of a particular age.
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1956 Econ. Jrnl. 66 67 The ratio of the age-weighted sum of assets..to the simple sum of assets.
1966 Rep. Comm. Inq. (Univ. of Oxf.) I. 183 On an age-weighted basis, Oxford salaries are now on average 4 per cent. higher than the average for all universities.
2011 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 19 May l7 Age-weighted voting would restore power to 20- and 30-year-olds.

Derivatives

ˈageworthy adj. (of wine) having potential to improve with age; worth keeping to mature in the bottle.
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1982 Washington Post 24 Jan. l1/1 A dwindling number of conscientious producers..go to great pains and expense to make their wine ageworthy, majestic and multi-dimensional.
1991 Wine Spectator 15 Apr. 64/1 Penfold's winemaker..determined to make an ageworthy Australian red.
2005 Wine Internat. Jan. (Austral. Life Suppl.) 27/1 A maker of ageworthy Shiraz and Cabernet.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

agev.

Brit. /eɪdʒ/, U.S. /eɪdʒ/
Inflections: Present participle ageing, aging;
Forms: see age n.; also late Middle English ache.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: age n.
Etymology: < age n. Compare Middle French aagier , aaigier , eagier to declare (a person) to have come of age (1331), (reflexive) to mature (1530 in an isolated attestation in Palsgrave, with reference to wine). Compare also Anglo-Norman veillir , Old French, Middle French, French vieillir to grow or become old (end of the 12th cent. in Old French), to make (a person or thing) old or aged (early 13th cent.; < viel , vieil old: see vieux adj.). 18th-cent. contextual evidence for the verb is lacking. Compare slightly earlier aged adj.
1.
a. intransitive. Of a person, animal, or thing: to grow old; to become or appear aged.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > age > old age > be or seem old [verb (intransitive)] > grow old
oldeOE
eldc1175
to fall in (also to) agea1398
forlive1398
hoara1420
runa1425
age1440
veterate1623
senesce1656
olden1700
wane1821
to get on in years1822
senilize1841
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 8 Agyn, or growyn agyd, seneo, senesco.
c1450 Speculum Christiani (Harl. 6580) (1933) 222 I was ȝonge and I haue achede [L. senui].
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 418/2 Thought maketh men age a pace.
1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) iii. iii. 224/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I The pike as he ageth, receiueth diuerse names, as from a frie to a gilthed, from a gilthed to a pod, [etc.].
1622 S. Ward Life of Faith in Death 105 The inner man ages not,..but rather lifts vp the head,..and excepts to bee vnburdened.
1682 N. Grew Anat. Plants ii. i. ii. 61 The other [skin], Postnate, succeeding in the room of the former, as the Root ageth.
1833 W. M. Praed Poems (1865) I. 405 Queen Mab is ageing very fast.
1861 C. H. Pearson Early & Middle Ages Eng. 393 He [sc. Henry II] stooped slightly and grew fat and gouty as he aged.
1876 Argosy Apr. 304 One would have thought she had aged ten years in those few moments.
1906 J. Galsworthy Man of Prop. vii. 180 ‘He's not half the man he was.’ ‘I've noticed it a long time;..he's aged tremendously.’
1960 New Scientist 2 June 1435/1 As the star ages, its brilliance would decrease.
1991 Time 25 Nov. 38/1 The burden on younger Americans is growing more onerous as the U.S. population ages.
2006 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) Jan. 84/1 As we age, we gradually lose our collagen, a protein fiber that makes our skin firm.
b. transitive. To make old; to cause to grow old, or to appear old or older.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > age > old age > make old [verb (transitive)]
eldc1400
age1530
enage1593
autumn1661
senilize1841
olden1850
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 286v/2 Thought and imprisonment wyll age a man anone.
1633 Earl of Manchester Al Mondo: Contemplatio Mortis (rev. ed.) 171 Saith Saint Augustine, A man might Age himselfe in it, and sooner grow old, then weary.
1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 64 Grief hallows hearts even while it ages heads.
1851 Fraser's Mag. Oct. 407/2 She has aged me years.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xv. 173 An Arctic night and an Arctic day age a man more rapidly and harshly than a year anywhere else.
1904 M. E. Durham Through Lands of Serb ix. 130 It was the roughness of their lives that had so aged them.
1961 Ebony June 118 (advt.) You wonder why any woman ever should let streaky gray hair age her looks.
2003 Observer 24 Aug. (Mag.) 66/2 Lipid peroxidation is believed to age the body and predispose it to chronic conditions such as heart disease.
2. transitive. To mature (food, drink, or some other product) by keeping in storage, exposing to the air, etc.
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the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > prepare [verb (transitive)] > mature
perfecta1398
ripea1398
season1545
ripen?1560
digest1607
mature1626
maturate1628
enripena1631
age1675
august1855
1675 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Odysses 32 Then Nestor bids one fill the Temperer With Wine that aged was eleven year.
1852 J. Swindells & W. Nicholson Brit. Patent 390 1 For oxydating metallic solutions, and for ageing and raising various colouring matters.
1854 W. E. Staite Brit. Patent 468 2 Madder which, technically speaking, has not been ‘aged’.
1919 W. W. Fisk Bk. Ice-cream xiii. 172 Pasteurization... destroys the viscosity so that milk or cream that has been aged and then pasteurized must be aged again to regain it.
1992 New Yorker 14 Dec. 75/1 The Gubbeen..is a brushed-rind cheese that has been aged for four months.
2010 Atlanta Jrnl.-Constitution (Nexis) 4 Mar. 1 e The ale had been aged in an oak rum barrel from Prichards' Distillery in Tennessee.
3. transitive. To calculate or ascertain the age of (an animal or thing); spec. to estimate the age of (a horse) by inspection of the wear of its teeth. Cf. date v. 1b.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [verb (transitive)] > assign an age to
age1829
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [verb (transitive)] > tell age
age1829
1829 Oriental Sporting Mag. Jan. 220 An owner, if not satisfied with their decision, may call upon all the Stewards to age or measure his horse.
1887 M. H. Hayes Soundness & Age of Horses vi. 94 If a colonial animal in, say, September showed the condition of mouth just described, we should age him as five years old.
1908 Animal Managem. (War Office) 37 Dates from which horses are aged.
1954 Vermont Life Spring 49 The forester is able to age trees by studying the growth rings or annuli.
1966 A. Comfort in N. W. Shock Perspectives in Exper. Gerontol. xvii. 245 They could be used also on mammals which can be aged by inspection of some cyclically-deposited structure.
1970 Nature 23 May 692/1 These dykes have been radiogenically aged at 2,420 million years.
1992 M. W. Fox Understanding your Cat (rev. ed.) i. 26 Todd has found, after studying the frequencies of occurrence of various coat colors.., that it is possible to age a given population.
2010 E. Dickenson They call Horses x. 169 He even mucked out stalls and learned how to age a horse by looking into its mouth.
4. transitive. Textiles. To fix (mordants, colours, cloth, etc.) by the process of ageing (ageing n. 2). Also intransitive: to undergo this process.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > colour > colouring > dyeing > dye [verb (transitive)] > fix dye
set1601
fix1665
strike1769
age1830
mordant1839
pad1839
steam calico-printing1862
the world > matter > colour > colouring > dyeing > dye [verb (transitive)] > make dye
age1830
paste1862
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > surface and planographic printing > other surface-printing > [verb] > textiles
age1830
the world > matter > colour > colouring > dyeing > [verb (intransitive)] > be fixed by mordant
age1912
1830 S. F. Gray & A. L. Porter Chem. of Arts II. 720 Goods printed with the aluminous mordant are generally aged three or four..days.
1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 177 The calico..has to be dried and aged.
1912 E. Knecht & J. B. Fothergill Textile Printing 141 It is preferable to let them ‘age’ for a day or two in pile before dyeing.
1987 Textile Dyer & Printer 20 30/2 The fabric is aged under the conditions of controlled tension for 3-9 sec.
5. transitive. To make (something) appear older than it really is, esp. for fraudulent purposes; to give the artificial appearance of age to. Cf. antique v. 1.
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1888 Sci. Amer. Suppl. 4 Aug. 10495/1 He knows how to ‘age’ the bills so that they have the appearance of having been much handled.
1922 Lawyer & Banker Jan.–Feb. 64 The questions may be complicated by an attempt fraudulently to age the writing artificially.
1977 Washington Post 2 Dec. (Weekend section) 4/4 Other ways to make a new [mechanical] bank seem old include dipping it in salt water or acid or burying it in the ground or in cow manure, to ‘age’ it.
1995 K. McCloud Techniques of Decorating (1998) 15 You may want to have a ‘user-friendly’ finish to your painted surfaces, so think about ageing or antiquing them slightly.
2008 J. Kamieński Hidden in Enemy's Sight xxv. 270 It was, however, the last of the fake portraits that I aged with special care.
6. intransitive. Magnetism. Of iron or steel: to undergo a deterioration in its magnetic properties. Cf. ageing n. 4. Now rare.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical engineering > transformer > of core: suffer loss [verb (intransitive)]
age1896
1896 Jrnl. Inst. Electr. Engineers 24 421 Iron ages magnetically—although not exactly in the same sense as port wine ages, in the way of improvement, but by way of deterioration.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 121/1 Brands of steel are now obtainable which do not age in this manner.

Phrasal verbs

to age out U.S. (a) transitive (chiefly in passive) to compel (a person) to leave a position, institution, etc., on the grounds of age; (b) intransitive (esp. of a child) to pass the upper age limit that is allowable or usual for some classification or activity; to become too old for or grow out of the thing specified.
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1953 Lima (Ohio) News 17 May 8 b/1 They are usually destined to retire as colonels, or perhaps get one star as they are aged-out.
1955 Frederick (Maryland) Post 12 July 2/1 The Frederick Little League All-Stars team..for two successive years swept to the state championship..then aged out of the Little classification.
1988 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 20 Nov. v. 5 By 1980, that crime wave had lost its force as the baby boomers ‘aged out’ of crime.
1994 New Yorker 19 Sept. 70/3 Once students reach fifteen they ‘age out’ and are automatically sent on to high school.
2010 A. L. Begun & J. P. Mersky in J. Caspi Sibling Devel. (2011) ii. xv. 326 Roughly 20,000 youth are ‘aged out’ of the foster care system each year.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

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