superannuatedadj.n.

Brit.

/ˌsuːpərˈanjʊeɪtᵻd/,

/ˌsjuːpərˈanjʊeɪtᵻd/, U.S.

/ˈˌsupərˈænjəˌweɪdᵻd/

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin superannuatus , -ed suffix¹.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin superannuatus (see superannuate adj.) + -ed suffix¹. Compare slightly earlier superannate adj. and later superannuate adj. In sense A. 3 after superannuate v.

A. adj.

a. Disqualified or incapacitated by age; old and infirm. Now usually depreciative or humorous.

(a) In predicative use. Sometimes with for or infinitive: too old for, or to be or do, something.†Formerly also: (with amongst) no longer amongst on account of old age; (with from) not subject to or capable of on account of old age (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > source or principle of life > age > old age > [adjective] > decrepit or senile

decrepit?a1500

wintry1579

superannated1605

superannate1608

superannuated1616

superannuate1647

doitereda1790

doitering1828

rickety1841

senile1847

nodded1887

geriatric1968

1616 Barriers in D. S. Bland Three Revels Inns of Court (1984) ii. 57 The daughter of tyme..bred in a dongeon,..and of long not heard of, but super-annuated amongst men.

1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 26 My mother..had lost a good and honest Husband, and..was super-annuated for any more Suitors.

1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre i. xxii. 34 Barzillai, superannuated to be a courtier.

1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) i. §42 Were there any hopes to out-live vice, or a point to be super-annuated from sin.

1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 212 When any are super-annuated,..seeing they can do no more Work they are to expect no more Wages.

1757 H. Walpole Let. 17 Jan. (1857) III. 56 I trust he [sc. the Pope] was superannuated when they drew from him the late Bull;..a step how unlike all the amiable moderation of his life!

1787 Minor 59 The horses, being likewise superannuated, were exchanged for others.

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 342/2 I subscribed regularly to Society, and knew that if I got superannuated I should be comfortably maintained by the trade.

1873 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life i. vii. 36 We shall be either superannuated or dead.

1917 Century Oct. 898/2 Ewing wondered how much of a ‘relic’ Bridget thought him. He was not quite superannuated.

1982 A. MacLean Partisans (1984) ii.54 They [sc. soldiers] are either superannuated or very very young.

2004 F. Foer How Soccer explains World (2005) iii. 68 Anyone who might remember Hakoah at its best is too superannuated to remember, or no longer around.

(b) In attributive use.

ΚΠ

a1637 B. Jonson Magnetick Lady iii. Chorus 42 in Wks. (1640) III An overgrowne, or superannuated Poet.

1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. xi. 22 This goodly ancient City..looks like..som superannuated Virgin, that had lost her Lover.

1712 E. Budgell Spectator No. 301. ¶1 Elderly Fops, and superannuated Coquets.

a1780 J. Wesley Minutes Several Conversat. (1780) 36 How can we provide for Superannuated and supernumerary Preachers?

1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 157 Mr. Calton was a superannuated beau—an old boy.

1886 W. J. Tucker Life E. Europe 110 A giggle from a withered superannuated governess.

1958 P. Larkin Let. 29 Oct. in Sel. Lett. (1992) 292 Tonight I am going to the Ferret's to meet some superannuated old French professor from Manchester.

2004 Independent 11 June Mag 9/3 A den of superannuated pot-smoking hippies copulating under the stars.

b. In extended use, of a person's features, attributes, actions, etc.

ΚΠ

1647 R. Baron Εροτοπαιγνιον ii. 24 Such decayed, and superannuated faces.

1706 tr. J. B. Morvan de Bellegarde Refl. upon Ridicule 309 Her superannuated Charms.

1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond I. xi. 264 With a fascinating superannuated smile, she complimented him on his wit.

1860 J. L. Motley Hist. United Netherlands I. vii. 436 In all this there was much of superannuated coquetry.

1907 G. Saintsbury Later 19th Cent. vi. 284 Anthero de Quental rebelled against his superannuated leadership..and..Castilho was dethroned.

2001 E. Segal Death of Comedy v. 48 His superannuated phallus is clearly inoperative.

a. Of a (material or immaterial) thing: too old; worn out, antiquated; made out of date or obsolete, esp. by age or new developments.

(a) In predicative use.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] > old-fashioned or antiquated

moth-frettenOE

antiquate?a1425

antique?1532

rusty1549

moth-eaten1551

musty1575

worm-eatenc1575

overyear1584

out of date1589

old-fashioned1592

out of date1592

worm-eat1597

old-fashion1599

ancient1601

outdated1616

out-of-fashion1623

over-aged1623

superannuateda1634

thorough-old1639

overdateda1641

trunk-hosea1643

antiquitated1645

antiquated1654

out-of-fashioned1671

unmodern1731

of the old school1749

auld-farrant1750

old-fangled1764

fossila1770

fogram1772

passé1775

unmodernized1775

oxidated1791

moss-covered1792

square-toeda1797

old-fashionable1807

pigtail1817

behind the times1826

slow1827

fossilized1828

rococo1836

antiquish1838

old-timey1850

out of season1850

moss-grown1851

old style1858

antiqued1859

pigtaily1859

prehistoric1859

backdated1862

played1864

fossiled1866

bygone1869

mossy-backed1870

old-worldly1878

past-time1889

outmoded1896

dated1900

brontosaurian1909

antiquey1926

horse-and-buggy1926

vintage1928

Neolithic1934

time-warped1938

demoded1941

steam age1941

hairy1946

old school1946

rinky-dink1946

time warp1954

Palaeolithic1957

retardataire1958

throwback1968

wally1969

antwacky1975

a1634 W. Austin Devotionis Augustinianæ Flamma (1635) 280 The pleasure I tooke in them [sc. worldly things]..being taken off, they wither, grow uselesse, and are super-annuated, like an old tent.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Wine In France, the Wines that keep best,..are reckon'd superannuated at five or six Leaves old.

1789 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music III. 463 What is the secular Music that thirty years have not wrinkled, withered, and rendered superannuated!

1883 H. H. Juta tr. J. Van der Linden Inst. Holland 283 The judgments of the High Court become superannuated after a lapse of five years.

1941 P. Carr English are like That ii. 17 His respect for tradition often makes him hold on to methods which are superannuated.

1990 J. Freedman Professions of Taste v. 243 These words..seem superannuated, of course, because they once seemed so new.

(b) In attributive use.

ΚΠ

1646 S. Ford Great Interest States & Kingdomes Ep. Ded. sig. A3v Cast Truthes, like super-annuated factions, shall return, and become New-light again.

1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. xi. 148 From rags, Snattocks, Snips,..super-annuated Smocks and Shirts, come very faire Sheets.

1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing iv. 37 This superannuated conceit deserves no more of our remembrance.

1723 H. Rowlands Mona Antiqua Restaurata vi. 38 The Laws, Religion and other superannuated Rites and Methods of antient Times.

1779 G. Keate Sketches from Nature (1790) II. 60 Paying my half-crown, I took a sweat, on one of the snug superannuated benches [in the ballroom].

1805 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 14 379 A person, whose understanding has not been debauched by superannuated prejudice.

1846 A. Smith Christopher Tadpole (1848) vii. 66 Hickory..scrubbed it with what appeared to be a superannuated clothes brush.

1933 Crisis June 138/3 Bala, the watchman, with shaved head and superannuated morning-coat.

1994 Nat. Hist. Apr. 4/1 A superannuated paternalism.

2003 Archit. Rev. Jan. 52/3 I was surprised..to find no large floating exhibits in the harbour—tugs, steamboats, superannuated submarines.

†b. Loosely: that has lasted a very long time; inveterate; very old. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective]

oldeOE

eldeda1400

antique1490

invetered1490

prisk1533

grey-headed1578

ancient1579

hoar1590

inveterated1597

antiquated1598

inveterate1598

long-dated1602

avital1611

vetust1623

old-standinga1627

grey-haired1637

superannuateda1644

avitous1731

old-established1776

venerable1792

timeworn1840

inworn1864

avitic1865

a1644 F. Quarles Judgem. & Mercy (1646) 40 Hath Gilead Balme enough to heale thy superannuated sores?

1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 783 The charges of the..superannuated Warre increasing every year.

1854 T. De Quincey Autobiogr. Sketches in Select. Grave & Gay II. 109 No more..than the sun fails to gladden the heart, because it is that same old superannuated sun that has gladdened it for thousands of years.

3. Originally Nautical. Discharged or retired from service or work on a pension after reaching a certain age; having or receiving superannuation. Also designating the pension received. Now chiefly Australian.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > lack of work > [adjective] > relating to retirement > retired > on a pension

superannuated1703

pensioned-off1841

pensioned1897

1703 A. Boyer Hist. King William III III. 306 90075 Pounds for Pensions to superannuated Sea-Officers, and Widows.

1708 J. Chamberlayne Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (ed. 22) ii. 652 Captain Robert Robinson,..no Salary, only his Superannuated Pay at the Navy-Board.

1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 176 A superannuated lieutenant on half-pay.

1817 Jrnl. House of Commons 24 Feb. 62 97/1 Superannuated or retired Allowances, to Persons late belonging to the Office of Ordinance.

1848 C. Dickens Haunted Man i. 13 There's my father,..superannuated keeper and custodian of this Institution, eigh-ty-seven year old.

1899 Gunton's Mag. Mar. 286 In France there is a state pension fund out of which superannuated employees may be paid..a certain proportion of their previous salary.

1908 Labor Digest Dec. 17/1 Andrew Carnegie..has given nearly $120,000,000 for old age and superannuated pensions.

2008 Sunday Tel. (Austral.) (Nexis) 31 Aug. (Features section) 16 There's no stopping cashed-up over 50s, many already retired and superannuated, from heading off on a trip overseas.

B. n.

With the and plural agreement. Superannuated people collectively; (occasionally also) superannuated things.

ΚΠ

1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 86/2 Those whom you take in..are the Superannuated, and those who want their Senses.

1763 North Briton 4 June 15 Not a lieutenant but would have gladly accepted the rank; allowed the superannuated their whole pay.

1839 A. Smith Peru as it Is II. v. 163 The customary tribute or capitation tax, from which even the superannuated are not always exempt.

1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda III. vi. xlii. 240 Obstinate adherence to the superannuated.

1909 Amer. Rev. of Rev. Feb. 179/2 The young, strong, able, are taken; the women, children, the superannuated, are left.

2003 T. Barnard New Anat. Ireland vii. 199 The superannuated were steered into Greenwich or Chelsea Hospital.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	superannuated
释义	superannuatedadj.n. Brit. /ˌsuːpərˈanjʊeɪtᵻd/, /ˌsjuːpərˈanjʊeɪtᵻd/, U.S. /ˈˌsupərˈænjəˌweɪdᵻd/ Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin superannuatus , -ed suffix¹. Etymology: < post-classical Latin superannuatus (see superannuate adj.) + -ed suffix¹. Compare slightly earlier superannate adj. and later superannuate adj. In sense A. 3 after superannuate v. A. adj. 1. a. Disqualified or incapacitated by age; old and infirm. Now usually depreciative or humorous. (a) In predicative use. Sometimes with for or infinitive: too old for, or to be or do, something.†Formerly also: (with amongst) no longer amongst on account of old age; (with from) not subject to or capable of on account of old age (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > age > old age > [adjective] > decrepit or senile decrepit?a1500 wintry1579 superannated1605 superannate1608 superannuated1616 superannuate1647 doitereda1790 doitering1828 rickety1841 senile1847 nodded1887 geriatric1968 1616 Barriers in D. S. Bland Three Revels Inns of Court (1984) ii. 57 The daughter of tyme..bred in a dongeon,..and of long not heard of, but super-annuated amongst men. 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 26 My mother..had lost a good and honest Husband, and..was super-annuated for any more Suitors. 1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre i. xxii. 34 Barzillai, superannuated to be a courtier. 1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) i. §42 Were there any hopes to out-live vice, or a point to be super-annuated from sin. View more context for this quotation 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 212 When any are super-annuated,..seeing they can do no more Work they are to expect no more Wages. 1757 H. Walpole Let. 17 Jan. (1857) III. 56 I trust he [sc. the Pope] was superannuated when they drew from him the late Bull;..a step how unlike all the amiable moderation of his life! 1787 Minor 59 The horses, being likewise superannuated, were exchanged for others. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 342/2 I subscribed regularly to Society, and knew that if I got superannuated I should be comfortably maintained by the trade. 1873 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life i. vii. 36 We shall be either superannuated or dead. 1917 Century Oct. 898/2 Ewing wondered how much of a ‘relic’ Bridget thought him. He was not quite superannuated. 1982 A. MacLean Partisans (1984) ii.54 They [sc. soldiers] are either superannuated or very very young. 2004 F. Foer How Soccer explains World (2005) iii. 68 Anyone who might remember Hakoah at its best is too superannuated to remember, or no longer around. (b) In attributive use. ΚΠ a1637 B. Jonson Magnetick Lady iii. Chorus 42 in Wks. (1640) III An overgrowne, or superannuated Poet. 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. xi. 22 This goodly ancient City..looks like..som superannuated Virgin, that had lost her Lover. 1712 E. Budgell Spectator No. 301. ¶1 Elderly Fops, and superannuated Coquets. a1780 J. Wesley Minutes Several Conversat. (1780) 36 How can we provide for Superannuated and supernumerary Preachers? 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 157 Mr. Calton was a superannuated beau—an old boy. 1886 W. J. Tucker Life E. Europe 110 A giggle from a withered superannuated governess. 1958 P. Larkin Let. 29 Oct. in Sel. Lett. (1992) 292 Tonight I am going to the Ferret's to meet some superannuated old French professor from Manchester. 2004 Independent 11 June Mag 9/3 A den of superannuated pot-smoking hippies copulating under the stars. b. In extended use, of a person's features, attributes, actions, etc. ΚΠ 1647 R. Baron Εροτοπαιγνιον ii. 24 Such decayed, and superannuated faces. 1706 tr. J. B. Morvan de Bellegarde Refl. upon Ridicule 309 Her superannuated Charms. 1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond I. xi. 264 With a fascinating superannuated smile, she complimented him on his wit. 1860 J. L. Motley Hist. United Netherlands I. vii. 436 In all this there was much of superannuated coquetry. 1907 G. Saintsbury Later 19th Cent. vi. 284 Anthero de Quental rebelled against his superannuated leadership..and..Castilho was dethroned. 2001 E. Segal Death of Comedy v. 48 His superannuated phallus is clearly inoperative. 2. a. Of a (material or immaterial) thing: too old; worn out, antiquated; made out of date or obsolete, esp. by age or new developments. (a) In predicative use. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] > old-fashioned or antiquated moth-frettenOE antiquate?a1425 antique?1532 rusty1549 moth-eaten1551 musty1575 worm-eatenc1575 overyear1584 out of date1589 old-fashioned1592 out of date1592 worm-eat1597 old-fashion1599 ancient1601 outdated1616 out-of-fashion1623 over-aged1623 superannuateda1634 thorough-old1639 overdateda1641 trunk-hosea1643 antiquitated1645 antiquated1654 out-of-fashioned1671 unmodern1731 of the old school1749 auld-farrant1750 old-fangled1764 fossila1770 fogram1772 passé1775 unmodernized1775 oxidated1791 moss-covered1792 square-toeda1797 old-fashionable1807 pigtail1817 behind the times1826 slow1827 fossilized1828 rococo1836 antiquish1838 old-timey1850 out of season1850 moss-grown1851 old style1858 antiqued1859 pigtaily1859 prehistoric1859 backdated1862 played1864 fossiled1866 bygone1869 mossy-backed1870 old-worldly1878 past-time1889 outmoded1896 dated1900 brontosaurian1909 antiquey1926 horse-and-buggy1926 vintage1928 Neolithic1934 time-warped1938 demoded1941 steam age1941 hairy1946 old school1946 rinky-dink1946 time warp1954 Palaeolithic1957 retardataire1958 throwback1968 wally1969 antwacky1975 a1634 W. Austin Devotionis Augustinianæ Flamma (1635) 280 The pleasure I tooke in them [sc. worldly things]..being taken off, they wither, grow uselesse, and are super-annuated, like an old tent. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Wine In France, the Wines that keep best,..are reckon'd superannuated at five or six Leaves old. 1789 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music III. 463 What is the secular Music that thirty years have not wrinkled, withered, and rendered superannuated! 1883 H. H. Juta tr. J. Van der Linden Inst. Holland 283 The judgments of the High Court become superannuated after a lapse of five years. 1941 P. Carr English are like That ii. 17 His respect for tradition often makes him hold on to methods which are superannuated. 1990 J. Freedman Professions of Taste v. 243 These words..seem superannuated, of course, because they once seemed so new. (b) In attributive use. ΚΠ 1646 S. Ford Great Interest States & Kingdomes Ep. Ded. sig. A3v Cast Truthes, like super-annuated factions, shall return, and become New-light again. 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. xi. 148 From rags, Snattocks, Snips,..super-annuated Smocks and Shirts, come very faire Sheets. 1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing iv. 37 This superannuated conceit deserves no more of our remembrance. 1723 H. Rowlands Mona Antiqua Restaurata vi. 38 The Laws, Religion and other superannuated Rites and Methods of antient Times. 1779 G. Keate Sketches from Nature (1790) II. 60 Paying my half-crown, I took a sweat, on one of the snug superannuated benches [in the ballroom]. 1805 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 14 379 A person, whose understanding has not been debauched by superannuated prejudice. 1846 A. Smith Christopher Tadpole (1848) vii. 66 Hickory..scrubbed it with what appeared to be a superannuated clothes brush. 1933 Crisis June 138/3 Bala, the watchman, with shaved head and superannuated morning-coat. 1994 Nat. Hist. Apr. 4/1 A superannuated paternalism. 2003 Archit. Rev. Jan. 52/3 I was surprised..to find no large floating exhibits in the harbour—tugs, steamboats, superannuated submarines. †b. Loosely: that has lasted a very long time; inveterate; very old. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] oldeOE eldeda1400 antique1490 invetered1490 prisk1533 grey-headed1578 ancient1579 hoar1590 inveterated1597 antiquated1598 inveterate1598 long-dated1602 avital1611 vetust1623 old-standinga1627 grey-haired1637 superannuateda1644 avitous1731 old-established1776 venerable1792 timeworn1840 inworn1864 avitic1865 a1644 F. Quarles Judgem. & Mercy (1646) 40 Hath Gilead Balme enough to heale thy superannuated sores? 1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 783 The charges of the..superannuated Warre increasing every year. 1854 T. De Quincey Autobiogr. Sketches in Select. Grave & Gay II. 109 No more..than the sun fails to gladden the heart, because it is that same old superannuated sun that has gladdened it for thousands of years. 3. Originally Nautical. Discharged or retired from service or work on a pension after reaching a certain age; having or receiving superannuation. Also designating the pension received. Now chiefly Australian. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > lack of work > [adjective] > relating to retirement > retired > on a pension superannuated1703 pensioned-off1841 pensioned1897 1703 A. Boyer Hist. King William III III. 306 90075 Pounds for Pensions to superannuated Sea-Officers, and Widows. 1708 J. Chamberlayne Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (ed. 22) ii. 652 Captain Robert Robinson,..no Salary, only his Superannuated Pay at the Navy-Board. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 176 A superannuated lieutenant on half-pay. 1817 Jrnl. House of Commons 24 Feb. 62 97/1 Superannuated or retired Allowances, to Persons late belonging to the Office of Ordinance. 1848 C. Dickens Haunted Man i. 13 There's my father,..superannuated keeper and custodian of this Institution, eigh-ty-seven year old. 1899 Gunton's Mag. Mar. 286 In France there is a state pension fund out of which superannuated employees may be paid..a certain proportion of their previous salary. 1908 Labor Digest Dec. 17/1 Andrew Carnegie..has given nearly $120,000,000 for old age and superannuated pensions. 2008 Sunday Tel. (Austral.) (Nexis) 31 Aug. (Features section) 16 There's no stopping cashed-up over 50s, many already retired and superannuated, from heading off on a trip overseas. B. n. With the and plural agreement. Superannuated people collectively; (occasionally also) superannuated things. ΚΠ 1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 86/2 Those whom you take in..are the Superannuated, and those who want their Senses. 1763 North Briton 4 June 15 Not a lieutenant but would have gladly accepted the rank; allowed the superannuated their whole pay. 1839 A. Smith Peru as it Is II. v. 163 The customary tribute or capitation tax, from which even the superannuated are not always exempt. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda III. vi. xlii. 240 Obstinate adherence to the superannuated. 1909 Amer. Rev. of Rev. Feb. 179/2 The young, strong, able, are taken; the women, children, the superannuated, are left. 2003 T. Barnard New Anat. Ireland vii. 199 The superannuated were steered into Greenwich or Chelsea Hospital. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1616
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