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Roget, Peter Mark, 1779-1869

"Roget's Thesaurus"


Adj. vespertine, autumnal, nocturnal.
Phr. "midnight, the outpost of advancing day" [Longfellow]; "sable-
vested Night" [Milton]; "this gorgeous arch with golden worlds inlay'd"
[Young].
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#127. Youth. -- N. youth; juvenility, juvenescence[obs3];
juniority[obs3]; infancy; babyhood, childhood, boyhood, girlhood,
youthhood[obs3]; incunabula; minority, nonage, teens, tender age, bloom.
cradle, nursery, leading strings, pupilage, puberty, pucelage[obs3].
prime of life, flower of life, springtide of life[obs3], seedtime of
life, golden season of life; heyday of youth, school days; rising
generation.
Adj. young, youthful, juvenile, green, callow, budding, sappy, puisne,
beardless, under age, in one's teens; in statu pupillari[Lat]; younger,
junior; hebetic[obs3], unfledged.
Phr. "youth on the prow and pleasure at the helm" [Gray];
"youth . . . the glad season of life" [Carlyle].
#128. Age. -- N. age; oldness[obs3] &c. adj.; old age, advanced age,
golden years; senility, senescence; years, anility[obs3], gray hairs,
climacteric, grand climacteric, declining years, decrepitude, hoary age,
caducity[obs3], superannuation; second childhood, second childishness;
dotage; vale of years, decline of life, "sear and yellow leaf" [Macbeth];
threescore years and ten; green old age, ripe age; longevity; time of life.


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