ppl. a. [f. AGE v. + -ED, prob. orig. modelled on Fr. âgé.]

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  1.  Having lived or existed long; of advanced age; old.

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., Agyd, Antiquatus, senectus.

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c. 1460.  Cov. Myst., 97. I am so agyd and so olde.

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1535.  Coverdale, Ps. cxviii. 100. Yee I am wyser then the aged.

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1607.  Shaks., Coriol., II. iii. 176. Aged Custome, But by your Voyces, will not so permit me.

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1634–46.  J. Row (father), Hist. Kirk (1842), 290. Mr. John Malcolme being the agedest.

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1718.  Pope, Iliad, XXIII. 928. To Ajax I must yield the prize; He to Ulysses, still more aged and wise.

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1876.  Freeman, Norm. Conq., II. vii. 121. He was an aged man and weary of his office.

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  b.  fig.

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1611.  Tourneur, Ath. Trag., III. i. 77. Ag’d in vertue.

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1874.  Mahaffy, Soc. Life Greece, ii. 28. The experience of Homeric men was aged enough to know that probity secured no man from the troubles of life.

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  2.  Belonging to or characteristic of old age.

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1588.  Shaks., Tit. A., III. i. 7. The aged wrinkles in my cheekes. Ibid. (1610), Temp., IV. i. 261. Shorten vp their sinewes With aged Cramps.

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  3.  Of or at the age of.

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1637.  Brass in Kendal Ch. (Nicholson Kend. 68). Here vnder lyeth the body of Alice … who dyed the 25th day of March 1637, being aged 26 yeares 5 months & od dayes.

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1801.  Times, 16 April, 4/4. The Purchaser will be intitled to immediately on the demise of a Lady, aged 54 years.

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1882.  Daily News, 8 Nov., 6/5. [Racing.] City Cup … Hardrada,… a. [i.e., aged more than 6] Y[r]s., 9 st. 9 lb. Ibid. Coursing…. All-Aged Stakes, of 6 guineas each.

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  Comb. † agedlike, a. obs. Having the appearance or marks of age, senile.

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1530.  Palsgr., 305/1. Aagedlyke, senil.

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