Meanings
- not comparableobsoleterareGrowing old.
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.
1658, John Hewitt, “Sermon 1”, in Nine select sermons: preached upon special occasions in the Parish Church of St. Gregories by St. Pauls, page 182 more 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 […]
1641, John Gauden, “A sermon preached at the University of Oxford, In S. Maries, July 11. 1641.”, in Three sermons preached upon severall publike occasions by John Gauden, page 18This 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 […]
2015, Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq, translated by Humphrey Davies, Leg Over Leg: Volumes Three and Four, page 190
Origin
- Latinveterāscēns
- Englishveterascent
From Latin veterāscēns.
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