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#107. Neverness. -- N. "neverness"; absence of time, no time; dies
non; Tib's eve; Greek Kalends, a blue moon.
Adv. never, ne'er; at no time, at no period; on the second Tuesday of
the week, when Hell freezes over; on no occasion, never in all one's born
days, nevermore, sine die; in no degree.
#108. [Definite duration, or portion of time.] Period. -- N. period,
age, era; second, minute, hour, day, week, month, quarter, year, decade,
decenniumm lustrum, quinquennium, lifetime, generation; epoch, ghurry,
lunation, moon.
century, millennium; annus magnus.
Adj. horary; hourly, annual &c. (periodical) 138.
#108a. Contingent Duration.-- Adv. during pleasure, during good
behavior; quandiu se bene gesserit.
#109. [Indefinite duration.] Course. -- N. corridors of time, sweep of
time, vesta of time, course of time, progress of time, process of time,
succesof timesion of time, lapse of time, flow of time, flux of time,
stream of time, tract current of time, tide of time, march of time, step of
time, flight of time; duration &c. 106.
[Indefinite time] aorist.
V. elapse, lapse, flow, run, proceed, advance, pass; roll on, wear on,
press on; flit, fly, slip, slide, glide; run its course. out- expire; go
-, pass- by; be -past &c. 122.
Adj. elapsing &c. v.; aoristic; progressive. -
Adv. in due time, in due season; in in due course, in due process, in
the fullness of time; in time.
Phr. labitur et labetur [Horace]; truditur dies die [Horace]; fugaces
labuntur anni [Horace] "tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this
petty pace from day to day" [Macbeth].
#110. [Long duration.] Diuturnity. -- N. diuturnity; a long time, a
length of time; an age, a century, an eternity; slowness &c. 275;
perpetuity &c. 112; blue moon, coon's age [U.S.], dog's age.
durableness, durability; persistence, endlessness, lastingness &c.
adj.; continuance, standing; permanence &c. (stability) 150 survival,
survivance; longevity &c. (age) 128; distance of time.
protraction of time, prolongation of time, extension of time; delay
&c. (lateness) 133.
V. last, endure, stand, remain, abide, continue, brave a thousand
years.
tarry &c. (be late) 133; drag on, drag its slow length along, drag a
lengthening chain; protract, prolong; spin out, eke out, draw out, lengthen
out; temporize; gain time, make time, talk against time.
out-last, -live; survive; live to fight again.
Adj. durable; lasting &c. v.; of long duration, of longstanding;
permanent, endless, chronic, long-standing; intransient, intransitive;
intransmutable, persistent; lifelong, livelong; longeval, long-lived,
macrobiotic, diuturnal, evergreen, perennial; sempervirent, sempervirid;
unintermitting, unremitting; perpetual &c. 112.
lingering, protracted, prolonged, spun out &c. v. long-pending, long-
winded; slow &c. 275.
Adv. long; for a long time, for an age, for ages, for ever so long,
for many a long day; long ago &c. (in a past time) 122; longo intervallo.
all the day long, all the year round; the livelong day, as the day is
long, morning noon and night; hour after hour, day after day, &c.; for
good; permanently &c. adj.
#111. [Short duration.] Transientness. -- N. transience, transientness
&c. adj.; evanascence, impermanence, fugacity, caducity, mortality, span;
nine days' wonder, bubble, Mayfly; spurt; flash in the pan; temporary
arrangement, interregnum.
velocity &c. 274; suddenness &c. 113; changeableness &c. 149.
transient, transient boarder, transient guest [U.S.].
V. be transient &c. adj.; flit, pass away, fly, gallop, vanish, fade,
evaporate; pass away like a cloud, pass away like a summer cloud, pass away
like a shadow, pass away like a dream.
Adj. transient, transitory, transitive; passing, evanescent, fleeting,
cursory, short-lived, ephemeral; flying &c. v.; fugacious, fugitive;
shifting, slippery; spasmodic; instantaneous, momentaneous.
temporal, temporary; provisional, provisory; deciduous; perishable,
mortal, precarious, unstable, insecure; impermanent.
brief, quick, brisk, extemporaneous, summary; pressed for time &c.
(haste) 684; sudden, momentary &c. (instantaneous) 113.
Adv. temporarily &c. adj.; pro tempore; for the moment, for a time;
awhile, en passant, in transitu; in a short time; soon &c. (early) 132;
briefly &c. adj.; at short notice; on the point of, on the eve of; in
articulo; between cup and lip.
Phr. one's days are numbered; the time is up; here today and gone
tomorrow; non semper erit aestas; eheu! fugaces labuntur anni; sic transit
gloria mundi; a schoolboy's tale, the wonder of the hour! [Byron]; dum
loquimur fugerit invidia aetas; fugit hora; all that is transitory is but
an illusion [Goethe].
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#112. [Endless duration.] Perpetuity. -- N. perpetuity, eternity,
everness, aye, sempiternity, immortality, athanasia; interminability,
agelessness, everlastingness &c. adj.; perpetuation; continued existence,
uninterrupted existence; perennity; permanence (durability) 110.
V. last forever, endure forever, go on forever; have no end.
eternize, perpetuate.
Adj. perpetual, eternal; everduring, everlasting, everliving,
everflowing; continual, sempiternal; coeternal; endless, unending;
ceaseless, incessant, uninterrupted, indesinent, unceasing; endless,
unending, interminable, having no end; unfading, evergreen, amaranthine;
neverending, never-dying, never-fading; deathless, immortal, undying,
imperishable.
Adv. perpetually &c. adj.; always, ever, evermore, aye; for ever, for
aye, till the end of the universe, forevermore, forever and a day, for
ever and ever; in all ages, from age to age; without end; world without
end, time without end; in secula seculorum; to the end of time, to the
crack of doom, to the "last syllable of recorded time" [Macbeth]; till
doomsday; constantly &c. (very frequently) 136.
Phr. esto perpetuum; labitur et labetur in omne volubilis oevum
[Horace]; "but thou shall flourish in immortal youth" [Addison]; "Eternity!
thou pleasing, dreadful thought" [Addison]; "her immortal part with angels
lives" [Romeo & Juliet]; ohne Rast [Goethe's motto]; ora e sempre.
#113. [Point of time] Instantaneity. -- N. instantaneity,
instantaneousness, immediacy; suddenness, abruptness.
moment, instant, second, minute; twinkling, trice, flash, breath,
crack, jiffy, coup, burst, flash of lightning, stroke of time.
epoch, time; time of day, time of night; hour, minute; very minute
&c., very time, very hour; present time, right time, true time, exact
correct time.
V. be instantaneous &c. adj.; twinkle, flash.
Adj. instantaneous, momentary, sudden, immediate, instant, abrupt,
discontinuous, precipitous, precipitant, precipitate; subitaneous,
hasty;quick as thought, quick as lightning, quick as a flash; rapid as
electricity.
speedy, quick, fast, fleet, swift ,lively, blitz; rapid (velocity)
274.
Adv. instantaneously &c. adj.; in no time, in less than no time;
presto, subito, instanter, suddenly, at a stroke, like a shot; in a moment
&c. n. in the blink of an eye, in the twinkling of an eye, in a trice; in
one's tracks; right away; toute a l'heure; at one jump, in the same breath,
per saltum, uno saltu; at once, all at once; plump, slap; "at one fell
swoop"; at the same instant &c. n.; immediately &c. (early) 132; extempore,
on the moment, on the spot, on the spur of the moment; no sooner said than
done; just then; slap-dash &c. (haste) 684.
Phr. touch and go; no sooner said than done.
#114. [Estimation, measurement, and record of time.] Chronometry. --
N. chronometry, horometry, horology; date, epoch; style, era.
almanac, calendar, ephemeris; register, registry; chronicle, annals,
journal, diary, chronogram.
[Instruments for the measurement of time]; clock, wall clock, pendulum
clock, grandfather's clock, cuckoo clock, alarm clock, clock radio; watch,
wristwatch, pocket watch, stopwatch, Swiss watch; atomic clock, digital
clock, analog clock, quartz watch, water clock; chronometer, chronoscope,
chronograph; repeater; timekeeper, timepiece; dial, sundial, gnomon,
horologe, pendulum, hourglass, clepsydra; ghurry.
chronographer, chronologer, chronologist, timekeeper; annalist.
calendar year, leap year, Julian calendar, Gregorian calendar, Chinese
calendar, Jewish calendar, perpetual calendar, Farmer's almanac, fiscal
year.
V. fix the time, mark the time; date, register, chronicle; measure
time, beat time, mark time; bear date; synchronize watches.
Adj. chronological, chronometrical, chronogrammatical; cinquecento,
quattrocento, trecento.
Adv. o'clock.
#115. [False estimate of time.] Anachronism. -- N. anachronism,
metachronism, parachronism, prochronism; prolepsis, misdate; anticipation,
antichronism.
disregard of time, neglect of time, oblivion of time.
intempestivity &c. 135.
V. misdate, antedate, postdate, backdate, overdate; anticipate; take
no note of time, lose track of time; anachronize.
Adj. misdated &c. v.; undated; overdue, past due; out of date.
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2. RELATIVE TIME
1. Time with reference to Succession
#116. Priority. -- N. priority, antecedence, anteriority, precedence,
pre-existence; precession &c. 280; precursor &c. 64; the past &c. 122;
premises.
V. precede, come before; forerun; go before &c. (lead) 280; preexist;
dawn; presage &c. 511; herald, usher in.
be beforehand &c. (be early) 132; steal a march upon, anticipate,
forestall; have the start, gain the start.
Adj. prior, previous; preceding, precedent; anterior, antecedent; pre-
existing, pre-existent; former, foregoing; before-mentioned, above-
mentioned; aforesaid, said; introductory &c. (precursory) 64.
Adv. before, prior to; earlier; previously &c. adj.; afore, aforehand,
beforehand, ere, theretofore, erewhile; ere then, ere now, before then,
before now; erewhile, already, yet, beforehand; on the eve of.
Phr. prior tempore prior jure.
#117. Posteriority. -- N. posteriority; succession, sequence;
following &c. 281.; subsequence, supervention; futurity &c. 121; successor;
sequel &c. 65; remainder, reversion.
V. follow &c. 281 after, come after, go after; succeed, supervene;
ensue, occur; step into the shoes of.
Adj. subsequent, posterior, following, after, later, succeeding,
postliminious, postnate; postdiluvial, postdiluvian; puisne; posthumous;
future &c. 121; afterdinner, postprandial.
Adv. subsequently, after, afterwards, since, later; at a subsequent,
at a later period, at a later date; next, in the sequel, close upon,
thereafter, thereupon, upon which, eftsoons|; from that time, from that
moment; after a while, after a time; in process of time.
#118. The Present Time. -- N. the present, the present time, the
present day, the present moment, the present juncture, the present
occasion; the times, the existing time, the time being; today, these
days, nowadays, our times, modern times, the twentieth century; nonce,
crisis, epoch, day, hour.
age, time of life.
Adj. present, actual, instant, current, existing, extant, that is;
present-day, up-to-date, up-to-the-moment.
Adv. at this time, at this moment &c. 113; at the present time &c. n.;
now, at present; at hand.
at this time of day, today, nowadays; already; even now, but now,
just now; on the present occasion; for the time being, for the nonce; pro
hac vice.; on the nail, on the spot; on the spur of the moment, until now;
to this day, to the present day.
Phr. "the present hour alone is man's " [Johnson].
#119. [Time different from the present.] Different time. -- N.
different time, other time.
[Indefinite time] aorist.
Adj. aoristic; indefinite.
Adv. at that time, at which time, at that moment, at that instant;
then, on that occasion, upon; not now, some other time.
when; whenever, whensoever; upon which, on which occasion; at another,
at a different, at some other, at any- time; at various times; some one of
these days, one of these days, one fine morning; eventually, some day, by
and by, sooner or later; some time or other; once upon a time
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#120. Synchronism. -- N. synchronism; coexistence, coincidence;
simultaneousness, simultaneity &c. adj.; concurrence, concomitance, unity
of time, interim.
[Having equal times] isochronism.
contemporary, coetanian.
V. coexist, concur, accompany, go hand in hand, keep pace with;
synchronize.
Adj. synchronous, synchronal, synchronical, synchronistical;
simultaneous, coexisting, coincident, concomitant, concurrent; coeval,
coevous; contemporary, contemporaneous; coetaneous; coeternal; isochronous.
Adv. at the same time; simultaneously &c. adj.; together, in concert,
during the same time; in the same breath; pari passu; in the interim.
at the very moment &c. 113; just as, as soon as; meanwhile &c. (while)
106.
#121. [Prospective time.] Futurity. -- N. futurity, futurition;
future, hereafter, time to come; approaching time, coming time, subsequent
time, after time, approaching age, coming age, subsequent age, after age,
approaching days, coming days, subsequent days, after days, approaching
hours, coming hours, subsequent hours, after hours, approaching ages,
coming ages, subsequent ages, after ages, approaching life, coming life,
subsequent life, after life, approaching years, coming years, subsequent
years, after years; morrow; millennium, doomsday, day of judgment, crack of
doom, remote future.
approach of time advent, time drawing on, womb of time; destiny &c.
152; eventuality.
heritage, heirs posterity.
prospect &c. (expectation) 507; foresight &c. 510.
V. look forwards; anticipate &c. (expect) 507, (foresee) 510;
forestall &c. (be early) 132.
come on, draw on; draw near; approach, await, threaten; impend &c. (be
destined) 152.
Adj. future, to come; coming &c. (impending) 152; next, near; close at
hand; eventual, ulterior; in prospect &c. (expectation) 507.
Adv. prospectively, hereafter, in future; kal, tomorrow, the day after
tomorrow; in course of time, in process of time, in the fullness of time;
eventually, ultimately, sooner or later; proximo; paulo post futurum; in
after time; one of these days; after a time, after a while.
from this time; henceforth, henceforwards; thence; thenceforth,
thenceforward; whereupon, upon which.
soon &c. (early) 132; on the eve of, on the point of, on the brink of;
about to; close upon.
Phr. quid sit futurum cras fuge quoerere [Horace].
#122. [Retrospective time.] Preterition -- N. the past, past time;
days of yore, times of yore, days of old, times of old, days past, times
past, days gone by, times gone by; bygone days; old times, ancient times,
former times; fore time; the good old days, the olden time, good old time;
auld lang syne; eld|.
antiquity, antiqueness, status quo; time immemorial; distance of time;
remote age, remote time; remote past; rust of antiquity
paleontology, paleography, paleology; palaetiology, archaeology;
archaism, antiquarianism, medievalism, Pre-Raphaelitism; retrospect,
retrospection, looking back, memory &c. 505.
laudator temporis acti; medievalist, Pre-Raphaelite; antiquary,
antiquarian; archmologist &c.; Oldbuck, Dryasdust.
ancestry &c. (paternity) 166.
V. be past &c. adj.; have expired &c. adj., have run its course, have
had its day; pass; pass by, go by , pass away, go away , pass off, go off;
lapse, blow over.
look back, trace back, cast the eyes back; exhume.
Adj. past, gone, gone by, over, passed away, bygone, foregone;
elapsed, lapsed, preterlapsed, expired, no more, run out, blown over, has-
been, that has been, extinct, antediluvian, antebellum, never to return,
gone with the wind, exploded, forgotten, irrecoverable; obsolete &c. (old)
124.
former, pristine, quondam, ci-devant, late; ancestral.
foregoing; last, latter; recent, over night; preterperfect,
preterpluperfect.
looking back &c. v.; retrospective, retroactive; archaeological &c. n.
Adv. formerly; of old, of yore; erst, whilom, erewhile, time was, ago,
over; in the olden time &c. n.; anciently, long ago, long since; a long
while, a long time ago; years ago, yesteryear, ages ago; some time ago,
some time since, some time back.
yesterday, the day before yesterday; last year, ultimo; lately &c.
(newly) 123.
retrospectively; ere now, before now, till now; hitherto, heretofore;
no longer; once, once upon a time; from time immemorial, from prehistoric
times; in the memory of man; time out of mind; already, yet, up to this
time; ex post facto.
Phr. time was; the time has been, the time hath been; you can't go
home again; fuimus Troes [Vergil]; fruit Ilium [Vergil]; hoc erat in more
majorum; "O call back yesterday, bid time return" [Richard II]; tempi
passati; "the eternal landscape of the past" [Tennyson]; ultimus Romanorum;
"what's past is prologue" [Tempest]; "whose yesterdays look backward with a
smile" [Young].
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#123. Newness. -- N. newness &c. adj.; novelty, recency; immaturity;
youth &c. 127; gloss of novelty.
innovation; renovation &c. (restoration) 660.
modernism; mushroom, parvenu; latest fashion.
V. renew &c. (restore) 660; modernize.
Adj. new, novel, recent, fresh, green; young &c. 127; evergreen; raw,
immature; virgin; untried, unhandseled, untrodden, unbeaten; fire-new,
span-new.
late, modern, neoteric, hypermodern, nouveau; new-born, nascent,
neonatal[med.], new-fashioned, new-fangled, new-fledged; of yesterday;
just out, brand-new, up to date, up to the minute, with it, fashionable, in
fashion; in, hip [coll.]; vernal, renovated, sempervirent, sempervirid.
fresh as a rose, fresh as a daisy, fresh as paint; spick and span.
Adv. newly &c. adj.; afresh, anew, lately, just now, only yesterday,
the other day; latterly, of late.
not long ago, a short time ago.
Phr. di novello tutto par bello; nullum est jam dictum quod non dictum
est prius; una scopa nuova spazza bene.
#124. Oldness. -- N. oldness &c. adj.; age, antiquity; cobwebs of
antiquity. maturity; decline, decay; senility &c. 128.
seniority, eldership, primogeniture. archaism &c. (the past) 122;
thing of the past, relic of the past; megatherium; Sanskrit.
tradition, prescription, custom, immemorial usage, common law.
V. be old &c. adj.; have had its day, have seen its day; become old
&c. adj.; age, fade, senesce.
Adj. old, ancient, antique; of long standing, time-honored, venerable;
elder, eldest; firstborn.
prime; primitive, primeval, primigenous; paleoanthropic, paleolithic,
; primordial, primordinate; aboriginal &c. (beginning) 66; diluvian,
antediluvian; protohistoric; prehistoric; antebellum, colonial,
precolumbian; patriarchal, preadamite; paleocrystic; fossil, paleozoic,
preglacial, antemundane; archaic, classic, medieval, Pre-Raphaelite,
ancestral, black-letter.
immemorial, traditional, prescriptive, customary, whereof the memory
of man runneth not to the contrary; inveterate, rooted.
antiquated, of other times, rococo, of the old school, after-age,
obsolete; out of date, out of fashion, out of it; stale, old-fashioned,
behind the age; old-world; exploded; gone out, gone by; passe, run out;
senile &c. 128; time worn; crumbling &c. (deteriorated) 659; secondhand.
old as the hills, old as Methuselah, old as Adam, old as history.
Adv. since the world was made, since the year one, since the days of
Methuselah.
Phr. vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi [Tacitus].
#125. Morning. [Noon.] -- N. morning, morn, forenoon, a.m., prime,
dawn, daybreak; dayspring, foreday, sunup;
peep of day, break of day; aurora; first blush of the morning, first flush
of the morning, prime of the morning; twilight, crepuscule, sunrise;
cockcrow, cockcrowing; the small hours, the wee hours of the morning.
spring; vernal equinox, first point of Aries.
noon; midday, noonday; noontide, merodoam, prime; nooning, noontime.
summer, midsummer.
Adj. matin, matutinal; vernal.
Adv. at sunrise &c. n.; with the sun, with the lark, "when the morning
dawns".
Phr. "at shut of evening flowers" [Paradise Lost]; entre chien et
loup; "flames in the forehead of the morning sky" [Milton]; "the breezy
call of incense-breathing morn" [Gray].
#126. Evening. [Midnight.] -- N. evening, eve; decline of day, fall of
day, close of day; candlelight, candlelighting; eventide, nightfall,
curfew, dusk, twilight, eleventh hour; sunset, sundown; going down of the
sun, cock- shut, dewy eve, gloaming, bedtime.
afternoon, postmeridian, p.m.
autumn; fall, fall of the leaf; autumnal equinox; Indian summer, St.
Luke's summer, St. Martin's summer.
midnight; dead of night, witching hour, witching hour of night,
witching time of night; winter; killing time.
Adj. vespertine, autumal, nocturnal.
Phr. "midnight, the outpost of advancing day" [Longfellow]; "sable-
vested Night" [Milton]; "this gorgeous arch with golden worlds inlay'd"
[Young].
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#127. Youth. -- N. youth; juvenility, juvenescence; juniority;
infancy; babyhood, childhood, boyhood, girlhood, youthhood; incunabula;
minority, nonage, teens, tender age, bloom.
cradle, nursery, leading strings, pupilage, puberty, pucelage.
prime of life, flower of life, springtide of life, seedtime of life,
golden season of life; heyday of youth, school days; rising generation.
Adj. young, youthful, juvenile, green, callow, budding, sappy, puisne,
beardless, under age, in one's teens; in statu pupillari; younger, junior;
hebetic, unfledged.
Phr. "youth on the prow and pleasure at the helm" [Gray]; youth . . .
the glad season of life" [Carlyle].
#128. Age. -- N. age; oldness &c. adj.; old age, advanced age, golden
years; senility, senescence; years, anility, gray hairs, climacteric, grand
climacteric, declining years, decrepitude, hoary age, caducity,
superannuation; second childhood, second childishness; dotage; vale of
years, decline of life, "sear and yellow leaf" [Macbeth]; threescore years
and ten; green old age, ripe age; longevity; time of life.
seniority, eldership; elders &c. (veteran) 130; firstling; doyen,
father; primogeniture.
[Science of old age.] geriatrics, nostology|.
V. be aged &c. adj.; grow old, get old &c. adj.; age; decline, wane,
dodder; senesce.
Adj. aged; old &c. 124; elderly, geriatric, senile; matronly, anile|;
in years; ripe, mellow, run to seed, declining, waning, past one's prime;
gray, gray-headed; hoar, hoary; venerable, time-worn, antiquated, passe,
effete, decrepit, superannuated; advanced in life, advanced in years;
stricken in years; wrinkled, long in the tooth, marked with the crow's
foot; having one foot in the grave; doting &c. (imbecile) 499; like the
last of pea time.
older, elder, oldest, eldest; senior; firstborn; ichiban, ichiro
[Japanese].
turned of, years old; of a certain age, no spring chicken, old as
Methuselah; ancestral; patriarchal &c. (ancient) 124; gerontic.
Adv. pro tem
Phr. "give me a staff of honor for my age" [Titus Andronicus]; bis
pueri senes; peu de gens savent elre vieux; plenus annis abiit plenus
honoribus [Pliny the Younger]; "old age is creeping on apace" [Byron];
"slow-consuming age"' [Gray]; "the hoary head is a crown of glory"
[Proverbs xvi, 31]; "the silver livery of advised age" [II Henry VI]; to
grow old gracefully; "to vanish in the chinks that Time has made" [Rogers].
#129. Infant.-- N. infant, babe, baby, babe in arms; nurseling,
suckling, yearling, weanling; papoose, bambino; kid; vagitus.
child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin; bantling,
bratling; elf. youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker,
callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet [U.S.], schoolboy, hobbledehoy,
hopeful, cadet, minor, master. scion; sap, seedling; tendril, olivebranch,
nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry,
callow; codlin ,codling; foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten; lamb,
lambkin; aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa,
staddle.
girl; lass, lassie; wench, miss, damsel, demoiselle; maid, maiden;
virgin; hoyden.
Adj. infantine, infantile; puerile; boyish, girlish, childish,
babyish, kittenish; baby; newborn, unfledged, new-fledged, callow.
in the cradle, in swaddling clothes, in long clothes, in arms, in
leading strings; at the breast; in one's teens.
#130. Veteran.-- N. veteran, old man, seer, patriarch, graybeard;
grandfather, grandsire; grandam; gaffer, gammer; crone; pantaloon;
sexagenarian, octogenarian, nonagenarian, centenarian; old stager; dotard
&c. 501.
preadamite, Methuselah, Nestor, old Parr; elders; forefathers &c.
(paternity) 166.
Phr. "superfluous lags the veteran on the stage" [Johnson].
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