A — Agamogenetic to Aggrandizement (Part 3 of 6)

See Augustan, Brazen, Golden, Heroic, Middle.

8. A great period in the history of the Earth.

The geologic ages are as follows: 1. The Archæan, including the time when was no life and the time of the earliest and simplest forms of life. 2. The age of Invertebrates, or the Silurian, when the life on the globe consisted distinctively of invertebrates. 3. The age of Fishes, or the Devonian, when fishes were the dominant race. 4. The age of Coal Plants, or Acrogens, or the Carboniferous age. 5. The Mesozoic or Secondary age, or age of Reptiles, when reptiles prevailed in great numbers and of vast size. 6. The Tertiary age, or age of Mammals, when the mammalia, or quadrupeds, abounded, and were the dominant race. 7. The Quaternary age, or age of Man, or the modern era. Dana.

9. A century; the period of one hundred years.

Fleury . . . apologizes for these five ages.
Hallam.

10. The people who live at a particular period; hence, a generation. "Ages yet unborn." Pope.

The way which the age follows.
J. H. Newman.

Lo! where the stage, the poor, degraded stage,
Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age.
C. Sprague.

11. A long time. [Colloq.] "He made minutes an age." Tennyson.

Age of a tide, the time from the origin of a tide in the South Pacific Ocean to its arrival at a given place. — Moon's age, the time that has elapsed since the last preceding conjunction of the sun and moon.

Age is used to form the first part of many compounds; as, agelasting, age-adorning, age-worn, age- enfeebled, agelong.

Syn. — Time; period; generation; date; era; epoch.

Age
(Age), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Aged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Aging ] To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age; as, he grew fat as he aged.

They live one hundred and thirty years, and never age for all that.
Holland.

I am aging; that is, I have a whitish, or rather a light-colored, hair here and there.
Landor.

Age
(Age), v. t. To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to; as, grief ages us.

Aged
(A"ged) a.

1. Old; having lived long; having lived almost to or beyond the usual time allotted to that species of being; as, an aged man; an aged oak.

2. Belonging to old age. "Aged cramps." Shak.

3. (a"jed or ajd) Having a certain age; at the age of; having lived; as, a man aged forty years.

Agedly
(A"ged*ly), adv. In the manner of an aged person.

Agedness
(A"ged*ness), n. The quality of being aged; oldness.

Custom without truth is but agedness of error.
Milton.

Ageless
(Age"less) a. Without old age limits of duration; as, fountains of ageless youth.