| 单词 | legal age |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslegal age legal age n. (a) the age at which a person's participation in a particular activity or appointment to a specific role is legally valid or permissible (cf. age n. 2b); (b) the age at which a person takes on the rights and responsibilities of an adult (cf. age n. 2a).Cf. lawful adj., adv., n., and int.. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [noun] > specific age yearOE scorea1400 seventeena1568 threescorea1616 jubileea1640 military age1656 legal age1658 tecnogoniaa1676 sixty1717 forty1732 fifty1738 seven-year-old1762 teen1789 septuagenarianism1824 sexagenarianism1824 day-old1831 seventeen-year-old1858 centenarianism1863 roaring forties1867 twenties1874 leaving age1875 school-leaving age1881 octogenarianism1883 reading age1906 three1909 teenage1912 eleven-plus1937 the world > people > person > adult > [noun] > adulthood or maturity full eldOE agec1275 douthc1275 full agec1390 maturitya1475 years?1532 just age1541 just years1541 consistencea1613 grown years1645 legal age1658 adultness1663 adultagea1670 muttonhood1841 adulthood1850 1658 tr. J. Ussher Ann. World 418 The Anacleteria had been celebrated in honour of Ptolomei the King, as it is customary for the Kings of Egypt, when they come to the Legal age of their reign [L. ad legitimam regnandi ætatem]. 1681 R. Howard Life & Reign Richard II 139 Now having attained to Our Legal Age, We are resolved to be no longer in Ward, but to take into Our hands the Government of Our Realm. 1702 J. Northleigh Topogr. Descr. p. xxv Heirs would do well, if not better, to be at their Homes, when they arrive at that Statutable or Legal Age. 1794 Sun 19 Aug. 4/1 To evade the payment of that just debt, Bream had made it out that he was only the servant of his brother, who, as being under the legal age, could not be sued. 1839 Ann. Reg. 1838 Hist. Europe 209/2 The provisions of the [factory] act are violated.., and children, under the legal age, condemned to toil at the mill. 1860 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Daily Sentinel 29 Aug. The old gentleman..has been enabled to present each of his children, on arriving at legal age, with eighty acres of land. 1995 B. Asare in V. U. James Women & Sustainable Devel. Afr. vi. 107 If the son is a minor..other arrangements may be made until [he] reaches legal age. 2014 Scotsman (Nexis) 6 Feb. 20 The legal age for buying cigarettes in Scotland was raised from 16 to 18 in 2007. < as lemmas |
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