Meaning of veterascent | Babel Free

Definitions

Growing old.

not-comparable, obsolete, rare

Examples

“[…] we have⟳ no palate at all to relish heavenly food, minding rather to patch up our decaying carcases, which are daily veterascent and mouldring away, then the taking hold⟳ of any opportunity that may lead⟳ us to partake and tast of those immortal joyes […]”

“This Vestis animae (as Tertullian calls it,) our body, the clothing of our soules, is daily veterascent and mouldring away; notwithstanding all the art wee use⟳ to patch up our obsolete faces and withered carkasses.”

“This old, aged, elderly, decrepit, withered, shrunken, wizened, wrinkly, crabbed, shriveled, long-in–the-tooth, infirm, weak, debilitated, moth-eaten, doddery, tottery, grandevous, gerontic, badgerly, veterascent, senescent, doting, hoary, feeble, ravaged, wasting, superannuated mistress of mine […]”

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