Word of the day
First off, apologies to all, I have been rather absent as of late. Life has been rather busy as of late, both work and personal. Things are happening, although I don't necessarilywish to qualify them as good or bad as the experiences invariably seem to change. With that I am here to say that I will not be by a computer for the next week. Vacation can be a wonderful thing =). A dandy little trip to Disneyland (which I have not been since they were building the Rocky Mountain Thunder Trail Ride) and a trip to Medieval Times and the Beach. Going with yorkshirelass and her Sister and future Brother-in-Law. They have traveled all the way from Yorkshire County in the U.K. to visit their family.
Here is the word of the day.
dotage \DOH-tij\, noun:
Feebleness of mind due to old age; senility.
Pointing out that Cicero learned Greek in his seventies and
Socrates took up playing the lyre in his dotage, Dad liked
to say he would indeed someday consider retiring, when and
if he finally got old.
--James Dodson, [1]Final Rounds
It wasn't a good joke, and, in his dotage, he made it far
too often, but when I heard it for the first time I
remember laughing and thinking, with pleasure, that I was
catching on to the tricks adults played with words.
--Rob Nixon, [2]Dreambirds
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Dotage comes from the verb to dote, "to be weak-minded, silly,
or foolish; to have the intellect impaired, especially by old
age," from Middle English doten. One who is in his or her
dotage is a dotard.
Here is the word of the day.
dotage \DOH-tij\, noun:
Feebleness of mind due to old age; senility.
Pointing out that Cicero learned Greek in his seventies and
Socrates took up playing the lyre in his dotage, Dad liked
to say he would indeed someday consider retiring, when and
if he finally got old.
--James Dodson, [1]Final Rounds
It wasn't a good joke, and, in his dotage, he made it far
too often, but when I heard it for the first time I
remember laughing and thinking, with pleasure, that I was
catching on to the tricks adults played with words.
--Rob Nixon, [2]Dreambirds
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Dotage comes from the verb to dote, "to be weak-minded, silly,
or foolish; to have the intellect impaired, especially by old
age," from Middle English doten. One who is in his or her
dotage is a dotard.