The strain, however, of this publication, and indeed of some that went before it, makes us apprehensive that a worse thing has befallen him ... that the worthy inditer of epics is falling gently into dotage.

Lloyd does not like it; his head is too metaphysical, and your taste too correct,at least I must allege something against you both, to excuse my own dotage, But you allow some elaborate beauties; you should have extracted 'em.

Age N. age; oldness^ &c adj.; old age, advanced age, golden years; senility, senescence; years, anility^, gray hairs, climacteric, grand climacteric, declining years, decrepitude, hoary age, caducity^, superannuation; second childhood, second childishness; dotage; vale of years, decline of life, sear and yellow leaf

His perpetual dotage upon curiosities at length renders him one of them, and he shows himself as none of the meanest of his rarities.

A cursed deluding sex!In youth, middle age, or dotage, they take us all in.

The common sort define it to be "a kind of dotage without a fever, having for his ordinary companions, fear and sadness, without any apparent occasion."

The summum genus is "dotage, or anguish of the mind," saith Aretaeus; "of the principal parts," Hercules de Saxonia adds, to distinguish it from cramp and palsy, and such diseases as belong to the outward sense and motions

We properly call that dotage, as [1031]Laurentius interprets it, "when some one principal faculty of the mind, as imagination, or reason, is corrupted, as all melancholy persons have."

[1071]Faventinus, "a cause of dotage, and produceth milder symptoms: if hot, they are rash, raving mad, or inclining to it."

If it be within the [1075]body, and not putrified, it causeth black jaundice; if putrified, a quartan ague; if it break out to the skin, leprosy; if to parts, several maladies, as scurvy, &c. If it trouble the mind; as it is diversely mixed, it produceth several kinds of madness and dotage: of which in their place.

"It causeth dryness of the brain, frenzy, dotage, and makes the body dry, lean, hard, and ugly to behold," as Lemnius hath it.

A great assault and cause of our present malady, although we do most part neglect, take no notice of it, yet this is a violent batterer of our souls, causeth melancholy and dotage.

" Now because they are commonly subject to such hazards and inconveniences as dotage, madness, simplicity, &c. Jo.

It is from this Notion that an Author writes on, tho he is come to Dotage; without ever considering that his Memory is impaired, and that he has lost that Life, and those Spirits, which formerly raised his Fancy, and fired his Imagination.

I know I am now speaking like an old fellow, whose thoughts revert to the happier scenes of youth with a species of dotage, but it is not often a man has an opportunity of pourtraying such a bride and wife as Lucy Hardinge.

The late Mr. A. Bratley, at that time in his dotage, and recurring to the crude idioms of his homely youth, constantly said to my father, "Harold, you are a spendthrift and a rake, and are bringing up your son the same.

As needy gallants in the scrivener's hands, Court the rich knave that gripes their mortgaged lands, The first fat buck of all the season's sent, And keeper takes no fee in compliment: The dotage of some Englishmen is such, To fawn on those who ruin themthe Dutch.

Kings in their dotage and princes in their nonage wooed her.

I do deserve this, And never truly felt before, what sorrow Attends on wilfull dotage.

And Signiors, You that are Batchelours, if you ever marry, In Bartolus you may behold the issue Of Covetousness and Jealousie; and of dotage, And falshood in Don Henrique: keep a mean then; For be assured, that weak man meets all ill, That gives himself up to a womans will.

And I am not in my dotage to use such illustrationsas not unnaturally sayeth the first to read my history.

The disguised lover, in order to allay suspicion, has to feign a return of love to the queen and also to humour the dotage of the king, in the meanwhile revealing himself and his love to Philoclea, whom her father employs to court the affections of the Amazon.

And Valentine murmured to himself "'These strong Egyptian fetters I must break, or lose myself in dotage' (Antony and Cleopatra)"

Salmon was in Poland when all these horrors occurred, and there Jacob and Rebecca found him; and having now no other object, he devoted himself entirely to amassing riches, passing from one state of covetousness to another, till at length he began to fall into the dotage of avarice, which consists in laying up money for the sake of laying up, and delighting in the view of hoards of gold and precious things.

Moreover, since I respect myself now, I must not find so much fault with my own doings, or you will say that I am in my dotage.

And for ages the diminution of sexual activity as a predecessor to the decadence of senility has been harped upon.

You look upon him and see senility on a small scale, but with all its peculiarities: wrinkled skin, apathy, gray hair and all the rest of it.

Yet it may unquestionably bring about definite retrogressive changes in the secondary sex characters: reduction or loss of virility, diminution of facial and body hair, and a general presenility or hastening of senility.

Below thirty it is chubby and ruddy, and rather childish in its texture; after thirty, there is an effect of premature senility: the skin is yellowish, leathery, and wrinkled as the faces of old women are wrinkled: the upper lip is traversed by vertical wrinkles, and wrinkles come around corners of the mouth.

THE INTERPRETATION OF SENILITY Senility inevitably follows maturity, not as night follows day by a mathematical necessity, but because of the process of degeneration which ultimately overtakes all the glands of internal secretion, dominant as well as subordinate.

THE INTERPRETATION OF SENILITY Senility inevitably follows maturity, not as night follows day by a mathematical necessity, but because of the process of degeneration which ultimately overtakes all the glands of internal secretion, dominant as well as subordinate.

The work of Steinach, a Viennese investigator, has contributed most to the elucidation of the nonarterial factor in senility.

In due time, though, senility returns.

In the artificial growth the problem of senility and death is solved.

One, and the most important, is that the normal circulation of the blood does not succeed in freeing all the waste products of the tissues, and that this is the cause of senility and death.

But, wise in maxim, Polonius is foolish in practicenot from senility, but from vanity.]

He was indeed exceedingly old, foolish, and undignified in senility; and the louts were odiously jeering at his defenceless dotage, and a young policeman was obviously with the louts and against the aged, fatuous victim.

She outlived him and Haydn also, only to die in poverty and senility, far away in Hungary.

The deep, bright red band on her funnel gave her a touch of coquetry, but she had the drabness of senility; she was worn out, and working, when she should have gone to the junk pile years before.

By-and-by it will show every aspect of life in the same individual, from the earliest week to the last year of senility.

It is wonderful to see the unseasonable senility of what is called the Peace party, through all its masks, blinding their eyes to the main feature of the war, namely, its inevitableness.

It was assuredly not that degeneracy of senility which Mr. Balfour is inclined to postulate as an explanation of decadence.

And I must depute the building of your monument to men of feeble minds which have been properly impaired by futile studies and senility.

It is a pity that our language has no other word to indicate that one has lived seventy, eighty, or ninety years, than the word "old"; for the word "old" carries with it implications of "senility" and decrepitude, which many merely chronologically "old" people very properly resent.

Thus we find the works of most of them encumbered with the débris of their senility.

The man who has the freedom of a great library lengthens his own life without the weariness of living; he may include all past generations in his experience without risk of senility; not yet fifty, he may have made himself the contemporary of "the world's gray fathers"; and with no advantages of birth or person, he may have been admitted to the selectest society of all times and lands.

There is to my mind something inhuman in senility, something crouching and atavistic; the human qualities seem to drop from old people insensibly day by day.

But he would believe that I have lost the glow, and that what seems to me to be gentle and beautiful experience is but the closing in of weariness and senility.

All trace of senility vanished, and with equal joyousness she responded 'Yes, it's indeed Rosamund!'

Presumes he to his sov'reign to prescribe The rustic precepts of senility?