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Age

The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime.

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Aeon 76% connected

A period of immeasurable duration; also, an emanation of the Deity. See Eon.

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Antiquity 76% connected

The quality of being ancient; ancientness; great age; as, a statue of remarkable antiquity; a family of great antiquity.

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Decrepitude 76% connected

The broken state produced by decay and the infirmities of age; infirm old age.

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Dotage 76% connected

Feebleness or imbecility of understanding or mind, particularly in old age; the childishness of old age; senility; as, a venerable man, now in his do…

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Eon 76% connected

Alt. of Aeon

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Majority 76% connected

The quality or condition of being major or greater; superiority.

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Minority 76% connected

The state of being a minor, or under age.

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Newness 76% connected

The quality or state of being new; as, the newness of a system; the newness of a scene; newness of life.

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Nonage 76% connected

The ninth part of movable goods, formerly payable to the clergy on the death of persons in their parishes.

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Oldness 76% connected

The state or quality of being old; old age.

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Reign 76% connected

Royal authority; supreme power; sovereignty; rule; dominion.

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Senility 76% connected

The quality or state of being senile; old age.

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Youngness 76% connected

The quality or state of being young.

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Alter 76% connected

To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.

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Change 76% connected

To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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Develop 76% connected

To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or giv…

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Epoch 76% connected

A fixed point of time, established in history by the occurrence of some grand or remarkable event; a point of time marked by an event of great subseq…

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Era 76% connected

A fixed point of time, usually an epoch, from which a series of years is reckoned.

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Modify 76% connected

To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…

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Period 76% connected

A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a divis…

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Property 76% connected

That which is proper to anything; a peculiar quality of a thing; that which is inherent in a subject, or naturally essential to it; an attribute; as,…

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Manner of action 3

Dote 76% connected

A marriage portion. [Obs.] See 1st Dot, n.

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Fossilize 76% connected

To convert into a fossil; to petrify; as, to fossilize bones or wood.

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Turn 76% connected

To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…

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Maturate 72% connected

To bring to ripeness or maturity; to ripen.

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Mature 72% connected

Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriat…

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History 70% connected

A learning or knowing by inquiry; the knowledge of facts and events, so obtained; hence, a formal statement of such information; a narrative; a descr…

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Life 70% connected

The state of being which begins with generation, birth, or germination, and ends with death; also, the time during which this state continues; that s…

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Lifetime 70% connected

The time that life continues.

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Component part 3

Nineties 70% connected

of Ninety

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Seventies 70% connected

of Seventy

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Sixties 70% connected

of Sixty

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Immature 66% connected

Not mature; unripe; not arrived at perfection of full development; crude; unfinished; as, immature fruit; immature character; immature plans.

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Immature 66% connected

Not mature; unripe; not arrived at perfection of full development; crude; unfinished; as, immature fruit; immature character; immature plans.

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Mature 66% connected

Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriat…

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Mature 66% connected

Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriat…

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New 66% connected

Having existed, or having been made, but a short time; having originated or occured lately; having recently come into existence, or into one's posses…

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New 66% connected

Having existed, or having been made, but a short time; having originated or occured lately; having recently come into existence, or into one's posses…

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Old 66% connected

Open country.

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Old 66% connected

Open country.

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Young 66% connected

Not long born; still in the first part of life; not yet arrived at adolescence, maturity, or age; not old; juvenile; -- said of animals; as, a young…

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Young 66% connected

Not long born; still in the first part of life; not yet arrived at adolescence, maturity, or age; not old; juvenile; -- said of animals; as, a young…

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Synonym 3

Eld 92% connected

Old.

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Maturate 92% connected

To bring to ripeness or maturity; to ripen.

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Mature 92% connected

Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriat…

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