ageistn.adj.

1969 N.Y. Times 9 Mar. 64/4 As if to jangle the psyches..of Dr. Butler's anxious ‘ageists’, the Mayor noted that the public housing tenants would be right at home ‘in a residential neighborhood where many elderly persons already live’.

1970 Daily Tel. 2 June 12/4 The jack-booted agists of West Sussex must be stopped before they subject the elderly to the whole terror-apparatus of the Police State.

1984 L. M. Friedman Your Time will Come i. 48 Nobody can..tell whether the men who fired them were ‘ageists’ or not.

2000 Oxf. Amer. Jan. 37/1 ‘What is she? Fifteen’? His eyebrows gang up,..two disapproving parabolas: ‘I didn't know you were such an ageist’.

1972 Guardian 8 Aug. 17/6 De-humanising and ageist (c.f. racialist, sexist) metaphors likening young people to tender plants.

1974 Newsweek 6 May 24/3 She called him ‘a sexist, age-ist pig’.

1978 Lancet 19 Aug. 422/1 It is..extremely disheartening that you should be so ageist as to head the article ‘Care of the Elderly’.

1983 S. Day-Lewis in Daily Tel. 21 Nov. 11/4 The proposer of the motor-cycle film said that the riders ranged from the middle-aged to the ‘fresh faced and pimply’ and quickly apologised in case he sounded ‘ageist’.

1994 Accountancy Sept. 52/3 Finding a permanent job can be just as much of a problem, particularly for older members, who face a depressingly ageist recruitment market.

2008 Daily Tel. 24 Sept. 22/1 Men are inherently ageist when it comes to women,..whether it is in relationships or in the workplace.