单词 | alderelde |
释义 | alderelden. Now archaic and literary. Extreme old age; a life of many years. ΘΚΠ 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 a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) lxx. 19 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 202 (MED) In vnelde and alderelde [L. in senectam et senium], God, ne forlete [me] in vnwelde. 1889 ‘M. Corelli’ Ardath I. i. ii. 30 Though my actual years are but thirty, I feel an alder-elde of accumulated centuries upon me. 1992 N. V. Berberick Child of Elvish xiv. 105 Because this alder-elde the Seven have given me—this long, long living—does not have to do with whether or not I eat or drink. I still go on. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1400 |
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