adge

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English

Noun

adge (plural adges)

  1. Obsolete spelling of age.
    • 1865, Edward Dunbar Dunbar, editor, Social Life in Former Days, Chiefly in the Province of Moray, Edmonston & Douglas, page 286:
      and called me by King James, my dread soveraigne’s gratiosness, to this habitation in Ingland, and to this holy ministerie, being then fifty-eight yeares of adge;
    • 1871, Alexander Grant, Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of Chancery of Upper Canada, volume XVII, Henry Rowsell, page 228:
      The will was as follows: “ I, George Bateman, of the township of Maryposa, County of Victoria, Province of Canada Esq the adge of 56 years, and being in sound mind and memery do Make publich and decare this my will And testement in maner following, ”
    • 1884, Arthur Henry Bullen, A Collection of Old English Plays, Wyman & Sons, The Distracted Emperor, page 170:
      Thou shalt shortlye knowe thou hadst bene better— / I say no more ; though my deserts be hydd / My adge is not, for I neare weare a hatt ;
    • 1897, Charles Henry Pope, compiler, The Cheney Genealogy, Charles Henry Pope, page 205:
      And I doe also ad unto the same five poundes to be payed : the whol fivten pound unto the sayd Abiel at the adge of one and twentie by my Executor.
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