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The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime. Mine age is as nothing before thee. Ps. xxxix. 5.

having lived almost to or beyond the usual time allotted to that species of being; as, an aged man; an aged oak.

In the manner of an aged person.

The quality of being aged; oldness. Custom without truth is but agedness of error. Milton.

Without old age limits of duration; as, fountains of ageless youth.

See Again. [Obs.]

ing power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality. The superintendence and agency of Providence in the natural world. Woodward.

See Agendum. [Obs.]

A church service; a ritual or liturgy. [In this sense, usually Agenda.]

Characterized by sterility; infecund.

Any imperfect development of the body, or any anomaly of organization.

Impotence; sterility.

Actingpatient, or sustaining, action. [Archaic] "The body agent." Bacon.

Of or pertaining to an agent or an agency. Fitzed. Hall.

Agency. Beau. & Fl.

A genus of plants, one species of which (A. Mexicanum) has lavender-blue flowers in dense clusters.

Abuse. [Obs.] Whately (1634).

To encourage. [Obs.]

The process of coating the surface of a metal plate (as a stereotype plate) with steellike iron by means of voltaic electricity; steeling.

Acres collectively; as, the acreage of a farm or a country.