Obs. [Strong pa. pple. of WAX v.1] Grown up, full-grown, adult. Little waxen, young.
c. 1250. Gen. & Ex., 2060. Me drempte, ic stod at a win-tre, ðat adde waxen buȝes ðre.
1338. R. Brunne, Chron. (1810), 252. Himself in ille likyng, & had no waxen heyre, Þat mot kepe þe coroune, if he of lond went.
1382. Wyclif, Gen. iv. 23. A litle waxen man [Vulg. adolescentulum].
1422. Yonge, trans. Secreta Secret., 161. When hit is a wixen tree, an hundrid oxyn vnneth hit may bowe.
a. 1425. trans. Arderne’s Treat. Fistula, etc., 21. In ȝong men … or waxen men, I hafe seene few [sc. fistulas] euer be cured.
1555. Ridley, Confer., in Foxe, A. & M. (1583), 1722/2. The Lordes supper is, and ought to be geuen to them that are waxen.
1599. Return fr. Parnass., II. i. 812. Fonde they to thinke that this child’s waxen daye Will be well spente when maister beares no swaye.
1632. Lithgow, Trav., IX. 415. Such a man can neither seduce his [pupil’s] minority with ill examples, nor marre his waxen age with a false impression.
