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decrepitude|dɪˈkrɛpɪtjuːd|
[a. F. décrépitude (14th c.), prob. repr. a med.L. *dēcrepitūdo, f. dēcrepitus, or on the model of similar formations: see -tude.]
The state or condition of being decrepit; a state of feebleness and decay, esp. that due to old age. lit. and fig.
1603Florio Montaigne i. xix. (1632) 37 She..dies in her decrepitude. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 151 ⁋1 The several stages by which animal life makes its progress from infancy to decrepitude. 1784Cowper Task ii. 489 Praise from the rivel'd lips of toothless, bald Decrepitude. 1871R. Ellis Catullus lxi. 161 Still when hoary decrepitude..Nods a tremulous Yes to all. 1875Merivale Gen. Hist. Rome lxxv. (1877) 627 Paganism thus stricken down in her decrepitude never rose again. |