单词 | last age |
释义 | > as lemmaslast age last age n. now literary (a) the closing years of life, old age; also figurative; (b) the times just passed, the previous era. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > age > old age > [noun] eld971 old agec1330 agec1380 last agea1382 oldc1385 aldereldea1400 winterc1425 vilessec1430 annosityc1450 senectute1481 the black ox1546 golden years1559 years1561 great1587 afterlife1589 setting sun1597 antiquity1600 chair-daysa1616 the vale of yearsa1616 grandevity1623 green old age1634 eldship1647 senioritya1688 the other side of the hill1691 the decline of life1711 senectude1756 senility1791 senectitude1796 post-climacteric1826 Anno Domini1885 senium1911 golden age1946 the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > recency > [noun] > recent times yesterdaya1382 latter days1549 last age1678 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Wisd. iv. 8 The laste age [a1425 L.V. eelde; L. senectus] forsothe wrshipeful is not longe durende. a1475 J. Shirley Death James (BL Add. 5467) in Miscellanea Scotica (1818) II. 29 Translated..bi youre symple subget John Shirley, in his laste age. 1571 G. Fenton tr. Actes of Conf. in Relig. f. 48 A barraine woman in hir last age, hauing an olde husband, had a childe. 1678 T. Rymer (title) The Tragedies of the last Age consider'd. 1687 J. Everard Winding-sheet iii. 48 St. John did not preach his Gospel till his last Age..without writing. 1767 Monthly Rev. Mar. 229 The memoirs of a considerable number of eminent divines..of the last age. 1875 Punch 24 July 34/2 If England wishes something done For her last Age's strongest son, Be it his statue. 1938 H. J. Laski Parl. Govt. in Eng. (1945) vii. 370 The result of the ignorance of, and hostility to, the trade unions of the judges of the last age brought the Labour Party into being. 2004 J. Barth Bk. Ten Nights & Night vi. 156 My own mother, in her last age, found going upstairs in her own house too formidable an undertaking. < as lemmas |
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