Veteran N. veteran, old man, seer, patriarch, graybeard; grandfather, grandsire; grandam; gaffer, gammer; crone; pantaloon; sexagenarian, octogenarian, nonagenarian, centenarian; old stager; dotard &c 501.

[Sidenote: A.D. 136 (a.u. 889)] Servianus and his grandson Fuscus, the former a nonagenarian and the latter eighteen years of age, were put to death on the ground that they were displeased at this action.

After that he rests for a fortnight and recuperates, and returnsto take up a will case turning upon the toy rabbits and suchlike trifles which entertained the declining years of a nonagenarian.

Incidentally he mentioned that a prolonged search for the nonagenarian pensioner had produced nobody more venerable than a comparative youngster of sixty-five.

Ah, Fate, should I live to be nonagenarian, Let me still take Hope's frail I.O.U.s upon trust, Still talk of a trip to the Islands Macarian, And still climb the dream-tree forashes and dust!

The most interesting portrait of Bancroft presents him as a nonagenarian, against this impressive background, at work to the last.