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a⋅ged

   [ey-jid for 1, 2, 5, 6; eyjd for 1, 3, 4]
–adjective
1. having lived or existed long; of advanced age; old: an aged man; an aged tree.
2. pertaining to or characteristic of old age: aged wrinkles.
3. of the age of: a man aged 40 years.
4. brought to maturity or mellowness, as wine, cheese, or wood: aged whiskey.
5. Physical Geography. old; approaching the state of peneplain.
–noun
6. (used with a plural verb) old people collectively (usually prec. by the): We must have improved medical care for the aged.
Origin:
1375–1425; late ME. See age, -ed 2
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ag·ed     (ā'jĭd)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.  
  1. Being of advanced age; old.
  2. Characteristic of old age.
  3. (ājd) Having reached the age of: aged three.
  4. (ājd) Brought to a desired ripeness or maturity: aged cheese.
  5. Geology Approaching the base level of erosion.
n.   Elderly people considered as a group. Used with the.
ag'ed·ly adv., ag'ed·ness n.
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agedness

noun
the property characteristic of old age 

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Agedness

A"ged*ness\, n. The quality of being aged; oldness.

Custom without truth is but agedness of error. --Milton.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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