veterascent

English

Etymology

From Latin veterāscēns.

Adjective

veterascent (not comparable)

1. (obsolete, rare) Growing old.
   • 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 18:

     […] 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 […]

   • 1658, John Hewitt, “Sermon 1”, in Nine select sermons: preached upon special occasions in the Parish Church of St. Gregories by St. Pauls, page 18:

     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.

   • 2015, Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq, translated by Humphrey Davies, Leg Over Leg: Volumes Three and Four, page 190:

     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 […]

Latin

Verb

veterāscent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of veterāscō