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The quality or state of being senile; old age.

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  • PERIODIC; PERIODICAL
    Of or pertaining to a period; constituting a complete sentence. Periodic comet , a comet that moves about the sun in an elliptic orbit; a comet that has been seen at two of its approaches to the sun. -- Periodic function , a function whose values
  • SENIORITY
    The quality or state of being senior.
  • PERIODONTAL
    Surrounding the teeth.
  • ANTIQUITY
    1. The quality of being ancient; ancientness; great age; as, a statue of remarkable antiquity; a family of great antiquity. 2. Old age. It not your voice broken . . . and every part about you blasted with antiquity Shak. 3. Ancient times; former
  • IMBECILITY
    The quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, esp. of mind. Cruelty . . . argues not only a depravedness of nature, but also a meanness of courage and imbecility of mind. Sir W. Temple. Note: This term is used specifically to denote natural
  • EPOCHA
    See ADAMS
  • EPOCH
    A division of time characterized by the prevalence of similar conditions of the earth; commonly a minor division or part of a period. The long geological epoch which stored up the vast coal measures. J. C. Shairp. The date at which a planet or comet
  • FEEBLENESS
    The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity. That shakes for age and feebleness. Shak.
  • FATUITY
    Weakness or imbecility of mind; stupidity. Those many forms of popular fatuity. I Taylor.
  • TRANSIENCE; TRANSIENCY
    The quality of being transient; transientness.
  • DECLINE
    décliner to decline, refuse, fr. L. declinare to turn aside, inflect , avoid; de- + clinare to incline; akin to E. lean. 1. To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness,
  • PERIOD
    One of the great divisions of geological time; as, the Tertiary period; the Glacial period. See the Chart of Geology. 4. The termination or completion of a revolution, cycle, series of events, single event, or act; hence, a limit; a bound; an end;
  • CENTURY
    1. A hundred; as, a century of sonnets; an aggregate of a hundred things. And on it said a century of prayers. Shak. 2. A period of a hundred years; as, this event took place over two centuries ago. Note: Century, in the reckoning of time, although
  • PERIODICALLY
    In a periodical manner.
  • DECADENCE; DECADENCY
    A falling away; decay; deterioration; declension. "The old castle, where the family lived in their decadence.' Sir W. Scott.
  • WEAKNESS
    1. The quality or state of being weak; want of strength or firmness; lack of vigor; want of resolution or of moral strength; feebleness. 2. That which is a mark of lack of strength or resolution; a fault; a defect. Many take pleasure in spreading
  • DOTAGE
    1. Feebleness or imbecility of understanding or mind, particularly in old age; the childishness of old age; senility; as, a venerable man, now in his dotage. Capable of distinguishing between the infancy and the dotage of Greek literature.
  • PERIODIDE
    An iodide containing a higher proportion of iodine than any other iodide of the same substance or series.
  • DECLINER
    He who declines or rejects. A studious decliner of honors. Evelyn.
  • GENERATION
    The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude; as, the generation of a line or curve by the motion of a point, of a surface
  • ANTIPERIODIC
    A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers.
  • MEDINA EPOCH
    A subdivision of the Niagara period in the American upper Silurian, characterized by the formations known as the Oneida conglomerate, and the Medina sandstone. See the Chart of Geology.
  • INGENERATION
    Act of ingenerating.
  • UNREGENERATION
    Unregeneracy.
  • ALABAMA PERIOD
    A period in the American eocene, the lowest in the tertiary age except the lignitic.
  • CHAMPLAIN PERIOD
    A subdivision of the Quaternary age immediately following the Glacial period; -- so named from beds near Lake Champlain. Note: The earlier deposits of this period are diluvial in character, as if formed in connection with floods attending
  • DEGENERATION
    That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure; as, fatty degeneration of the liver. (more info) 1. The act or state of growing worse,
  • NIAGARA PERIOD
    A subdivision or the American Upper Silurian system, embracing the Medina, Clinton, and Niagara epoch. The rocks of the Niagara epoch, mostly limestones, are extensively distributed, and at Niagara Falls consist of about eighty feet of
  • PROGENERATION
    The act of begetting; propagation.

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