单词 | ripe old age |
释义 | > as lemmasripe old age b. Advanced; far on in years. Now frequently in ripe old age. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > age > old age > [adjective] > old (of beings, etc.) oldeOE winteredeOE oldlyOE over-oldOE eldernc1175 at-oldc1200 stricken on, in age, in eldec1380 oldlya1382 (well, far, etc.) stepped in age, in or into yearsc1386 ancientc1400 aged1420 well-agedc1450 ripec1480 passing oldc1485 (well) shot in years1530 old aged1535 agey1547 Ogygian1567 strucken1576 oldish1580 stricken in yearsa1586 declined1591 far1591 struck1597 Nestorian1605 overripe1605 elderly1611 eld1619 antiquated1631 enaged1631 thorough-old1639 emerita1643 grandevous1647 magnaevous1727 badgerly1753 (as) old as the hills1819 olden days1823 crusted1833 long in the tooth1841 oldened1854 mature1867 over the hill1950 c1480 (a1400) St. Ninian 609 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 321 Þe tyme..þat he of þis lyf suld pas, of parfit dat & rype elde. 1563 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1890) II. 58/17 Quhat euery thingis thai ar quhilkis be proces of the rypear aige ar generit [etc.]. 1567 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. xxiv. f. 209 So that shame separate from before the eyes of youth, riper age noursed in impudency, their sight is so daseled, as they can see nothing that either shame or feare can make them blush. 1627 in J. Hunter Diocese & Presbytery Dunkeld (1918) II. 369 Whyles to the..hazarding off the lyffis off these off ryper age. 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 243 He died at a ripe age and was buried at Persepolis. 1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks I. iii. 333 As if a Homer or a Xenophon imperfectly learnt, in raw years, might not afterwards, in a riper Age, be study'd. 1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 713 At so ripe an age As twice sev'n years. 1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XV lxx. 40 Also the younger men too; for a springald Can't like ripe age in gourmandise excel. 1884 Chambers's Jrnl. 10 May 293/1 Zeno hanged himself at the ripe old age of ninety-eight. 1923 National Geographic Mag. Jan. 49/1 Some of the wares on the shelves seem as if they might have attained a ripe old age before Columbus set out on his famous voyage. 1989 J. Updike Self-consciousness iii. 101 Nevertheless, both cats lived to a ripe age. They outlived my tenancy with my family, in fact. 2007 H. Swanson Super Nat. Cooking 87 One of my favourite stories is the legend of..a Chinese man who faithfully ate gojis and lived to the ripe old age of 252. < as lemmas |
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