Word Meanings - CADUCITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Tendency to fall; the feebleness of old age; senility. jumble of youth and caducity. Chesterfield.

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• JUMBLEMENT
  Confused mixture.
• JUMBLE
  To mix in a confused mass; to put or throw together without order; -- often followed by together or up. Why dost thou blend and jumble such inconsistencies together Burton. Every clime and age Jumbled together. Tennyson. (more info) Etym:
• FEEBLENESS
  The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity. That shakes for age and feebleness. Shak.
• YOUTHSOME
  Youthful. Pepys.
• YOUTHY
  Young. Spectator.
• YOUTHFUL
  Also used figuratively. "The youthful season of the year." Shak. 2. Of or pertaining to the early part of life; suitable to early life; as, youthful days; youthful sports. "Warm, youthful blood." Shak. "Youthful thoughts." Milton. 3. Fresh;
• TENDENCY
  Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result. Writings of this kind, if conducted with candor, have a more particular tendency to the good of their country.
• YOUTHHOOD
  The quality or state of being a youth; the period of youth. Cheyne.
• YOUTH
  geogoth; akin to OS. jugth, D. jeugd, OHG. jugund, G. jugend, Goth. 1. The quality or state of being young; youthfulness; juvenility. "In my flower of youth." Milton. Such as in his face Youth smiled celestial. Milton. 2. The part of life that
• CADUCITY
  Tendency to fall; the feebleness of old age; senility. jumble of youth and caducity. Chesterfield.
• JUMBLER
  One who confuses things.
• YOUTHLY
  Young; youthful. "All my youthly days." Spenser.
• SENILITY
  The quality or state of being senile; old age.
• BEJUMBLE
  To jumble together.
• SUPERINTENDENCY
  The act of superintending; superintendence. Boyle.