Definition of Nonage. Meaning of Nonage. Synonyms of Nonage

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Definition of Nonage

Nonage
Nonage Non"age, n. [LL. nonagium, from L. nonus ninth, novem nine.] (Eccl.) The ninth part of movable goods, formerly payable to the clergy on the death of persons in their parishes. --Mozley & W.
Nonage
Nonage Non"age, n. [Pref. non- + age.] Time of life before a person becomes of age; legal immaturity; minority. The human mind . . . was still in its nonage. --Coleridge.

Meaning of Nonage from wikipedia

- In law, a minor is someone under a certain age, usually the age of majority, which demarcates an underage individual from legal adulthood. The age of majority...
- use—or rather abuse—of his natural gifts, are the fetters of an everlasting nonage. The man who casts them off would make an uncertain leap over the narrowest...
- states of society in which the race itself may be considered as in its nonage. The early difficulties in the way of spontaneous progress are so great...
- vetted by the research community through the involvement of several dozen nonagency scientists. The NAS review officially got underway on April 24, 2009....
- eterne, eviternal, grandevity, grandevous, longevity, longevous, mediaeval, nonage, premediaeval, primaeval, primeval ager agr-, -egr- field agrarian, agrestal...
- And he did not like that Christianity kept adults under "self-imposed nonage". Kant did not completely say farewell to Christian ethics, that is why...
- not be content with producing in his majority what p****ed muster in his nonage. However, his designs are not inappropriate for the crude paradoxes that...
- Richard Lord Viscount Rosse of the Kingdom of Ireland, notwithstanding his Nonage, to settle a Jointure on Mary Viscountess Rosse his Wife, and make a Settlement...
- earlier gift of land made by Edward VI could be voided on account of his "nonage", that is, his immaturity, the judges held that it could not: the king's...
- 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 98) Real Actions Act 1275 c. 47 In what Case the Nonage of the Heir of the Dissesor or Disseisee shall not prejudice. — repealed...