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单词 legal age
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legal age
legal age n. (a) the age at which a person's participation in a particular activity or appointment to a specific role is legally valid or permissible (cf. age n. 2b); (b) the age at which a person takes on the rights and responsibilities of an adult (cf. age n. 2a).Cf. lawful adj., adv., n., and int..
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the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [noun] > specific age
yearOE
scorea1400
seventeena1568
threescorea1616
jubileea1640
military age1656
legal age1658
tecnogoniaa1676
sixty1717
forty1732
fifty1738
seven-year-old1762
teen1789
septuagenarianism1824
sexagenarianism1824
day-old1831
seventeen-year-old1858
centenarianism1863
roaring forties1867
twenties1874
leaving age1875
school-leaving age1881
octogenarianism1883
reading age1906
three1909
teenage1912
eleven-plus1937
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
1658 tr. J. Ussher Ann. World 418 The Anacleteria had been celebrated in honour of Ptolomei the King, as it is customary for the Kings of Egypt, when they come to the Legal age of their reign [L. ad legitimam regnandi ætatem].
1681 R. Howard Life & Reign Richard II 139 Now having attained to Our Legal Age, We are resolved to be no longer in Ward, but to take into Our hands the Government of Our Realm.
1702 J. Northleigh Topogr. Descr. p. xxv Heirs would do well, if not better, to be at their Homes, when they arrive at that Statutable or Legal Age.
1794 Sun 19 Aug. 4/1 To evade the payment of that just debt, Bream had made it out that he was only the servant of his brother, who, as being under the legal age, could not be sued.
1839 Ann. Reg. 1838 Hist. Europe 209/2 The provisions of the [factory] act are violated.., and children, under the legal age, condemned to toil at the mill.
1860 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Daily Sentinel 29 Aug. The old gentleman..has been enabled to present each of his children, on arriving at legal age, with eighty acres of land.
1995 B. Asare in V. U. James Women & Sustainable Devel. Afr. vi. 107 If the son is a minor..other arrangements may be made until [he] reaches legal age.
2014 Scotsman (Nexis) 6 Feb. 20 The legal age for buying cigarettes in Scotland was raised from 16 to 18 in 2007.
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