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-====== INDEFINITE AGE OF LIFETIME ======
-Life-time, or the AGE of LIVING Creatures, (as particularly applied to Men,* to which there is something answerable in other Ani∣mals; to which may be adjoyned the word SECULUM, Age, Estate, Generation,) is, according to common use, distinguished by such Terms as do denote the gradual differences of it.
-  * The first and most imperfect State, when ‖ destitute of the use of reason: or having but little use of it▪ comprehending the two first ten years.
-       * INFANCY, Babe, Child, Cub.
-       * CHILDHOOD, Boy, Girl, Wench, green years·
-  * The less imperfect Age, subject to the sway of Passions; ‖ either more, or less, containing the third and fourth ten years.
-       * ADOLESCENCY, adult, Lad, Springal, Stripling, Youth, Lass, Da∣mosel, Wench.
-       * YOUTH, Iuvenile, Younker.
-  * The perfect Age as to the Body: or the declining Age of the Body, but most perfect for the Mind, styled vergens aetas, or the Age of Wisdom; the former comprehending the space betwixt the 40th and the 50th, and the latter containing the space betwixt the 50th and the 60th year.
-      * MANHOOD, virile, middle age.
-      * DECLINING AGE, elderly.
-  * The last and most imperfect Age, by reason of the decay of Vigor, which commonly happens both in Body and Mind, ‖ either according to the first and better part of it: or the last and worst part of this State, reaching from the 60th to the 70th, and from thence for the time after.
-      * OLD AGE.
-      * DECREPIDNESS, Crone.

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