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aged, ppl. a.
(senses 1, 2, ˈeɪdʒɪd; sense 3, eɪdʒd)
[f. age v. + -ed, prob. orig. modelled on Fr. âgé.]
1. a. Having lived or existed long; of advanced age; old. aged parent, applied joc. to a parent (whether elderly or not).
1440Promp. Parv., Agyd, Antiquatus, senectus. c1460Cov. Myst. 97, I am so agyd and so olde. 1535Coverdale Ps. cxviii. 100 Yee I am wyser then the aged. 1607Shakes. Cor. ii. iii. 176 Aged Custome, But by your Voyces, will not so permit me. 1634–46J. Row (father) Hist. Kirk (1842) 290 Mr. John Malcolme being the agedest. 1718Pope Iliad xxiii. 928 To Ajax I must yield the prize; He to Ulysses, still more aged and wise. 1861Dickens Gt. Expect. II. vi. 92 You don't object to an aged parent, I hope? 1876Freeman Norm. Conq. II. vii. 121 He was an aged man and weary of his office. 1934A. Ransome Coot Club iii. 40 ‘Tell her we won't be late. Macaroni cheese to-night. Specially for you, A.P.’ That was Starboard talking to her Aged Parent.
b. fig.
1611Tourneur Ath. Trag. iii. i. 77 Ag'd in vertue. 1874Mahaffy Soc. Life in Greece ii. 28 The experience of Homeric men was aged enough to know that probity secured no man from the troubles of life.
2. Belonging to or characteristic of old age.
1588Shakes. Tit. A. iii. i. 7 The aged wrinkles in my cheekes. 1610― Temp. iv. i. 261 Shorten vp their sinewes With aged Cramps.
3. Of or at the age of. spec. of a horse.
1637Brass in Kendal Ch. (Nicholson Kend. 68) Here vnder lyeth the body of Alice..who dyed the 25th day of March 1637, being aged 26 yeares 5 months & od dayes. 1801Times 16 Apr. 4/1 The demise of a lady aged 54 years. 1869Sir F. Fitzwygram Horses & Stables lviii. 563 A moderately fresh aged horse is..more useful..than a young untried horse. 1882Daily News 8 Nov. 6/5 Racing. City Cup..Hardrada, a. [i.e. aged more than 6] yrs., 9 st. 9 lb. Ibid., Coursing. All-Aged Stakes, of 6 guineas each. 1951E. Rickman Come Racing with Me ii. 17 Any horse or mare above six years is ‘aged’.
Comb. † agedlike, a. obs. Having the appearance or marks of age, senile.
1530Palsgr. 305/1 Aagedlyke, senil. |