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anile, a.|ˈænaɪl|
[ad. L. anīl-is, f. anus old woman: see -ile.]
Of or like an old woman, old-womanish; imbecile.
1652Gaule Magastrom. 118 Puerile hallucinations and anile delirations. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. Ded. 1 But why do I recount those ancient and (I had almost said) anile things? 1803Syd. Smith Wks. (1867) I. 64 Not anile conjecture, but sound evidence of events. 1856R. Vaughan Ho. w. Mystics (1860) II. 251 Romanticism..grew anile in its premature decrepitude. |