[f. the prec. sb.]
1. intr. To grow old; to become aged.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XV. lxxiii. (1495), 516. Other men there ben in Inde that lyue ful longe and aegen neuer.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., Agyn, or growyn agyd, Seneo, senesco.
1530. Palsgr., 418/2. Thought maketh men age a pace.
1673. Grew, Anat. Plants, II. I. § 2 (1682), 61. The other [skin] Postnate, succeeding in the room of the former, as the Root ageth.
1833. Praed, Poems (1865), I. 405. Queen Mabis ageing very fast.
1861. Pearson, Early & Mid. Ages Eng., 393. He [Henry II.] stooped slightly and grew fat and gouty as he aged.
2. trans. To make old, to cause to grow old.
1636. Earl Manchester, Contempl. Mort., 182. A man might age himselfe in it, and sooner grow old than weary.
1839. Bailey, Festus (ed. 3), 12/2. Grief hallows hearts even while it ages heads.
1856. Kane, Arct. Explor., I. xv. 173. An Arctic night and an Arctic day age a man more rapidly and harshly than a year anywhere else.
