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septuagenary, a. and n. Now rare.|ˌsɛptjʊəˈdʒiːnərɪ|
[ad. L. septuāgēnārius (see prec.). Cf. F. septuagénaire.]
= prec.
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. i. 24 The same obiection..Lucian maketh to Iupiter... And asketh whether they were become Septuagenarie, or whether the lawe..against old mens mariages had restrayned them. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. ix. 125 Nor can the three hundred years of..Nestor, overthrow the assertion of Moses, or afford a reasonable encouragement beyond his septuagenary determination. 1737Common Sense I. 27, I have often observed Septuagenary great-grandmothers adorned, as they thought, with all the colours of the Rainbow. 1823Blackw. Mag. XIII. 92, I was in appearance a middle-aged man, and in mind a septuagenary. 1850Fraser's Mag. XLII. 2 The task would require..septuagenary years. |