† man-agen.1
Obsolete.
The age at which a boy becomes a man; the adult period of a man's life.
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father-age1596
c1425 Castle of Love (Egerton) (1967) l. 29 (MED) Then of erthe he made Adam of man-age.
1611 W. Sclater Key (1629) 172 Of youth they say, it must haue his swinge: when manage comes, mariage will bring staiednesse.
1655 W. Gouge & T. Gouge Learned Comm. Hebrewes (i. 10) i. 91 In his Infancy... In his Man-age... After his Resurrection... In the time of his Ascention.
1674 J. Bryan Harvest-home ii. 7 In Childhood, Youth, and Man-age.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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