1age, the length of time or number of years that one has already lived:
(
c.1135;
MS: 1267-68
)
Ot meschines de son aage Menoit berbis en pasturage
7.83 (A)
(
s.xiiiin;
MS: s.xiii3/4
)
L’en le troeve en l’escripture Ke cil ki en age gueres dure, Ke il dechece en veillesce, Tutes dulurs li frunt destrece
604
♦
timespan of life, lifetime:
(
1155;
MS: s.xiii4/4
)
Quant il out bien sun tens usé E sun eage trespassé, Purpensa sei que il fereit, A ki Engleterre laireit
5802
(
s.xiiiin;
MS: s.xiii3/4
)
trestut ad despendu sun age En dolur e en mal usage
233
(
s.xivin;
MS: s.xiv1
)
E servit Dieu tut son age
101.271
♦
timeage, discrete period of one’s life:
(
1267;
MS: c.1300
)
Le premer age, sanz dutance, De humme est numé enfance [...] Le quart age est juvente dit
4444, 4459
♦
old age:
(
s.xivin;
MS: s.xivm
)
Ceo qe en juvente ne avez quilly, coment le troverez en age?
171
2timeperiod of time, era:
(
c.1141;
MS: s.xiii4/4
) A vus di jeo, Romain, Bien en seez certein Ceo est li sist[es] eage Ke vus f[e]ra damage
357
(
1267;
MS: c.1300
)
Jhesu Crist plein de verité Venir vot en le derein age Del siecle
4421
(
1267;
MS: c.1300
)
les ages del mund par nature As ages de humeine creature Responunt, tut en verité
4439-40
3lawfull legal age, majority:
(
c.1200;
MS: s.xiii3/4
)
Desqu’il fu nez le nument Samuel, Qui, enfes, crunt
(l. cruut?) de sens et de corsage. Mult ama Deu des qu’il parv[i]nt
(var. (E: s.xiiim) vint) a age
(B) 5445
(
1215;
MS: 1226
)
quand il sera parvenu a aage, ait son heritage sanz relief et sans fin
357.3
(
1321
)
qe [...] ses executours puissent aver ses terres tanques l’age son heir
i 183
♦
lawdate of coming of age:
(
c.1290
)
ke le eir recovere par bref de mort de ancestre sa tere en sa main ové les damages ke il avera eu par le achesun de la detenue pus sun age
175
(
1295
)
prie J. de E. sa grace de une reconisaunce k’il fist a l’Escheker puys son age
14
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