单词 | quinquagenarian |
释义 | quinquagenariann.adj. A. n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > [noun] > of 50 quinquagenarya1382 pentecontarchc1384 synkquatener1523 quinquagenarian1569 penteconter1623 pentecoster1808 1569 J. Sanford tr. H. C. Agrippa Of Vanitie Artes & Sci. f. 130 Moses did then appoint them..Centurians, Quinquagenarians [L. quinquagenarios], and Decans. 1609 Bible (Douay) I. Exod. xviii. 21 Centurions, and quinquagenarians [L. quinquagenarios], and deanes. 1629 J. Mabbe tr. C. de Fonseca Deuout Contempl. xxxiii. 541 Forthwith your Quinquagenarians [Sp. Quinquagenario] and Captaines ouer fifties, euery one of them proffered him their seruice. 2. A person aged between fifty and fifty-nine years (inclusive). ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > person of specific age > [noun] one-year-old?1609 cinquanter1611 sexagenariana1646 septuagene1657 quintagenarian1687 threescore1721 septuagenarian1744 centenarian1747 seven-year-old1762 septuagenary1792 centenary1800 nonagenarian1804 sexagenary1814 octogenarian1815 nine-year-old1828 octogenary1828 semi-centenarian1828 quinquagenarian1830 quadragenarian1839 seventeen-year-old1858 70-year-old1870 twenty-firster1912 1830 Dublin Lit. Gaz. 3 Apr. 209/1 A quinquagenarian stands, as it were, between the living and the dead, he is a sort of middle term between the aged and the youthful. 1867 J. Hunter (title) Reminiscences of a Quinquagenarian. 1888 Times 13 July 6/2 This charge directed against men, some of whom are quinquagenarians or sexagenarians, and others septuagenarians, and some even bordering on octogenarians, is a somewhat startling one. 1913 O. Williams Vie de Bohème 149 The young men of today who are all more or less quinquagenerians. 1997 W. Self Great Apes (1998) xv. 266 His gait—even to a quinquagenarian like Busner—was gnawingly slow. B. adj. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > [adjective] > commanding 50 quinquagenarian1602 1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 356 Two Quinquagenarian Captains. 1629 J. Mabbe tr. C. de Fonseca Deuout Contempl. 592 One Elias consumed with fire Ahabs Quinquagenarian Captaines and their souldiers. 2. Aged between fifty and fifty-nine years (inclusive); relating to or characteristic of this age. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [adjective] > specific age seven?1440 yearing1451 year-old1556 yeared1583 seventy1590 two-year1596 quinquagenarian1603 septuagenary1605 twelvea1616 thirty1618 three-yearling1621 one-eared1645 quadragenarious1656 trimenstruous1656 septennian1662 sexagenarian1663 sexagenary1663 octogenarya1696 seven-year-old1713 quinquagenary1715 yearling1729 septuagesimal1781 septuagenarian1793 octogenarian1818 fortyish1821 seventeen-year-old1821 three-year-old1825 week-old1826 centenarian1828 day-old1831 70-year-old1832 quadragenarian1834 century-old1836 nonagenarian1877 teenaged1913 thirtyish1925 1603 A. Hartwell in tr. L. Soranzo Ottoman Ep. Ded. sig. ¶¶ If it shall please God to adde any moe yeares to this my Quinquagenarian yere of Iubile. 1822 New Monthly Mag. 5 46 The quinquagenarian bachelor. 1858 A. H. Clough Amours de Voyage in Atlantic Monthly Mar. 539 The trembling Quinquagenarian fears of two lone British spinsters. 1947 Peabody Jrnl. Educ. 25 28 He gloats when Bouvard and Pecuchet, his quinquagenarian Don Juans, are hoodwinked in their tardy amours. 1996 Austral. Mag. 30–31 Mar. 19/2 I suspected he harboured visions of himself as a Greek god; I saw only an extroverted quinquagenarian flasher. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1569 |
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