juvenileadj.n.

1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 339 Learning hath his Infancy, when it is..almost Childish; Then his Youth, when it is Luxuriant and Iuuenile.

1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. vii. 175 In its first and juvenile Constitution, is a very Spongy and Sappy Body.

1782 V. Knox Ess. (1819) I. xvii. 101 Man at every age seeks to be pleased, but more particularly at the juvenile age.

1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility I. vii. 74 He was a blessing to all the juvenile part of the neighbourhood. View more context for this quotation

1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. vii. 85 Although the order was..carried to Aunt Chloe by at least half a dozen juvenile messengers.

1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing Ep. Ded. sig. A iij I hope you'l consider, that Scepticism is..no crime in a Juvenile exercitation.

1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 96 This inspires a juvenile warmth through his whole frame. View more context for this quotation

1844 (title) Juvenile missionary magazine of the London Missionary Society.

1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) i. 4 Dressed in a very juvenile manner.

1882 B. A. Hinsdale Garfield & Educ. ii. 381 At that period, few juvenile books were published.

1907 Econ. Geol. II. 266 Many mineral springs may be of magmatic origin, but since their starting points are inaccessible they can be proved to be juvenile only by showing that they cannot be meteoric.

1909 H. B. C. Sollas & W. J. Sollas tr. E. Suess Face of Earth IV. xv. 549 [The hot springs] of Carlsbad..bring yearly to surface a million kilogrammes of juvenile salt.

1909 H. B. C. Sollas & W. J. Sollas tr. E. Suess Face of Earth IV. xv. 559 We must assume that the juvenile gases are originally liberated beneath the Sal mantle.

1944 Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 55 1375 Clearly one cannot hold that the volcano was kept alive merely by free juvenile gas rising from an abyssolithic injection.

1955 J. C. Brown & A. K. Dey India's Min. Wealth (ed. 3) 647 Geologists also recognise two further underground groups—‘connate waters’ which were trapped in some sedimentary rocks during their deposition and ‘juvenile waters’ which are of plutonic or magmatic origin.

1973 Sci. Amer. Jan. 56/2 One speculation is that deep permafrost is involved, associated perhaps with the arrival near the surface of juvenile water preceding and accompanying the rise of molten rock near the surface of the planet during the volcanic episode apparent to the west.

1733 P. Aram in Gent Rippon 12 Thus angry speaks, and yet deceitful smiles, With Juv'nal Air, on tender Juveniles.

1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre II. iii. 83 ‘Yes—yes—yes!’ cried the juveniles, both ladies and gentlemen. ‘Let her come—it will be excellent sport!’

1871 H. W. Longfellow in S. Longfellow Life H. W. Longfellow (1891) III. 172 Some bashful juvenile is even now timidly applying his hand to it.

1890 in Cent. Dict.

1898 G. B. Shaw in Sat. Rev. 5 Feb. 171/1 Ferdinand Gadd, the leading juvenile of 'The Wells'.

1933 P. Godfrey Back-stage iv. 46 His legs are too short or too long..for him to be a successful male juvenile.

1933 P. Godfrey Back-stage vi. 72 Dramatists, like stage juveniles, are considered young until they are past the age of forty.

1973 Times 17 Nov. 11/5 I'm going to be your juvenile next season.

1849 Mother Goose in Hieroglyphics (1963) (advt.) Pictures from the history of the Swiss... A very instructive and entertaining Juvenile, designed for children from ten to fifteen years of age.

1889 Publishers' Trade List Juveniles, classified in series according to price.

1908 Daily Chron. 27 Nov. 3/5 What would John Newbery say if he were to..see his old shop..filled with this season's ‘juveniles’?

1930 Publishers' Weekly 5 July 28 We announce 10 juveniles.

1947 Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Nov. 593/2 (advt.) The exacting and critical Juvenile public in this country.

1957 M. Hadfield Brit. Trees 96 The juvenile foliage [of Cryptomeria] is spreading, with flatter and softer leaves than the adult.

1971 T. T. Kozlowski Growth & Devel. Trees I. iii. 95 Plants derived from needle-leaved cuttings [of Chamæcyparis pisifera] retained juvenile foliage if the source tree did so.

1870 T. A. Brown Hist. Amer. Stage 54/1 In California she played all lines of business, from walking ladies to heavy, and juvenile leading.

1885 J. K. Jerome On Stage (1891) xi. 102 Juvenile Lead's opinion is that the stage manager is a fool.

1897 G. B. Shaw in Sat. Rev. 9 Oct. 388/1 This is not human nature or dramatic character; it is juvenile lead, first old man, heavy lead, heavy father.

1910 M. Beerbohm Around Theatres (1924) II. 460 The ‘ingénue’ and ‘juvenile lead’ of old-fashioned commercial drama.

1946 G. Millar Horned Pigeon i. 7 The part..might lead to great things, even to juvenile leads.

1973 J. Porter It's Murder with Dover xvi. 160 MacGregor flashed his juvenile lead smile.

1910 L. Cockayne N.Z. Plants iv. 60 After a few weeks its [sc. a veronica's] new growth will be of the juvenile form, and juvenile and adult leaves will be on the plant at the same time.

1946 A. B. Jackson Identification of Conifers 2 In many cases the juvenile leaves differ in form, attachment or arrangement from those on the adult tree.

1940 V. B. Wigglesworth in Jrnl. Exper. Biol. XVII. 221 In previous papers the ‘inhibitory hormone’ was so called because in its presence the production of imaginal characters at moulting is suppressed. But in view of its probable mode of action through the activation of the nymphal system at the expense of the imaginal, it might be preferable to refer to this hormone as the ‘nymphal’ or ‘juvenile’ hormone.

1965 J. Lee & F. Knowles Animal Hormones xiii. 161 Normal development depends on changes in the relative amounts of ecdysone and the juvenile hormone which are available to the tissues.

1967 New Scientist 20 Apr. 154/1 Juvenile hormone..is necessary for the normal growth of immature insects—caterpillars and grubs, for example.

1970 Daily Tel. 16 Nov. 6/1 Many South American plants contain similar substances to insect juvenile hormone.

1956 F. W. Jane Struct. Wood ix. 191 Juvenile wood often has cells of smaller dimensions, often much smaller, than those of the trunk.

1971 T. T. Kozlowski Growth & Devel. Trees I. iii. 109 The wood in the region of the pith, which is formed early..is termed juvenile (sometimes called core or pith) wood.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 8/1 In 1901..a ‘juvenile-adult reformatory’ was opened at Borstal, near Rochester, by the conversion of a part of the existing convict prison.]

1926 Encycl. Brit. I. 411/1 In 1894 two public inquiries into the administration of prisons and of Home Office schools arrived..at the same..conclusion, viz: ‘that the age 16–21 was the dangerous age; that we must concentrate on that; on the incipient criminal’ or, as he was officially christened, the juvenile adult.

1959 Earl Jowitt & C. Walsh Dict. Eng. Law II. 1041/1 Juvenile adult, a person not less than sixteen and not more than twenty-one.

1899 Illinois Laws 132 A special court room, to be designated as the juvenile court room, shall be provided..and the court may, for convenience, be called the ‘Juvenile Court’.

1908 Act 8 Edward VII c. 67 §111 A court of summary jurisdiction when hearing charges against children..shall..sit either in a different building..or on different days.., and a court of summary jurisdiction so sitting is in this Act referred to as a juvenile court.

1944 Ann. Reg. 1943 381 More attention than usual was focussed on the work of the Juvenile Courts.

1972 Daily Tel. 5 May 13/1 The Scots..abolished juvenile courts and replaced them with a system of children's panels.

1916 Lancet 2 Feb. 365/1 (title) Juvenile crime.

1964 J. M. Argyle Psychol. & Social Probl. xv. 187 The rate of juvenile crime has risen rapidly during the decade, particularly since 1955.

1816 Rep. Soc. investigating Causes Increase in Juvenile Delinquency 5 It was found that Juvenile Delinquency existed in the metropolis to a very alarming extent.

1837 C. Dickens Let. ?2 Oct. (1965) I. 315 Many thanks for your statistical Magazine, which contains some tables concerning juvenile delinquency.

1917 C. Leeson (title) The child and the war, being notes on juvenile delinquency.

1964 J. M. Argyle Psychol. & Social Probl. v. 59 Juvenile delinquency is one of our most pressing social problems.

1817 Observer 14 Sept. 1/3 Your Committee have anxiously sought for information as to the number of juvenile delinquents who are annually committed to the different prisons in the metropolis.

1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. xix. 321 Then the Juvenile Delinquent Society comes, and takes the boy away.

1958 New Statesman 25 Oct. 551/1 Some years ago when the current crop of juvenile delinquents were being labelled in the press as cosh-boys, I had written an article that contained interviews with some live specimens, hand-picked for me by an underworld acquaintance.

1817 Observer 14 Sept. 1/3 The greater part of these Juvenile Offenders..are mixed indiscriminately with old offenders of all ages.

1847 Act 10 & 11 Victoria c. 82 An Act for the more speedy Trial and Punishment of Juvenile Offenders... In certain Cases, to ensure the more speedy Trial of Juvenile Offenders..it is expedient to allow of such Offenders being proceeded against in a more summary manner than is now by Law provided.

1854 Act 17 & 18 Victoria c. 86 An Act for the better Care and Reformation of Youthful Offenders in Great Britain... Whereas Reformatory Schools for the better training of Juvenile Offenders have been..established.

1889 J. M. Robertson Ess. Crit. Method 246 Juvenilely facetious.

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Juvenilely, Juvenileness.

1832 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log xv, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 759/1 Our old friend..quite juvenilified by the laughing scene.

1833 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 33 848/1 Our system is juvenilized by all matin rural influences.