| 单词 | stepped in age, in or into years |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(well, far, etc.) stepped in age, in or into years a. (well, far, etc.) stepped in age, in or into years: advanced in years, elderly. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > age > old age > [adjective] > old (of beings, etc.) oldeOE winteredeOE oldlyOE over-oldOE eldernc1175 at-oldc1200 stricken on, in age, in eldec1380 oldlya1382 (well, far, etc.) stepped in age, in or into yearsc1386 ancientc1400 aged1420 well-agedc1450 ripec1480 passing oldc1485 (well) shot in years1530 old aged1535 agey1547 Ogygian1567 strucken1576 oldish1580 stricken in yearsa1586 declined1591 far1591 struck1597 Nestorian1605 overripe1605 elderly1611 eld1619 antiquated1631 enaged1631 thorough-old1639 emerita1643 grandevous1647 magnaevous1727 badgerly1753 (as) old as the hills1819 olden days1823 crusted1833 long in the tooth1841 oldened1854 mature1867 over the hill1950 c1386 G. Chaucer Nun's Priest's Tale 1 A poure wydwe, somdel stape [v.r. stope] in Age. c1386 G. Chaucer Merch. T. 270 And trewely it is an heigh corage Of any man that stapen [v.r. stopen] is in age To take a yong wyf. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vi. v. 23 Allthocht he eildit was, or step in age. c1530 Court of Love 281 This old, Thus fer y-stope in yeres. 1562 G. Legh Accedens of Armory 69 Certaine knyghtes..beynge sore brused, lamed, and well steppte into yeares. 1593 T. Nashe Strange Newes in Wks. (Grosart) II. 253 Shores wife is yong, though you be stept in yeares. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 493 Hellanicus, a man very farre stept in age. 1629 T. Hobbes tr. Thucydides Eight Bks. Peloponnesian Warre i. 4 Such of the Rich as were any thing stepped into yeeres. 1629 tr. Herodian Hist. (1635) 112 He was now well stept in yeares. < as lemmas |
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