Se*nes"cent (?), a. [L. senescent, p. pr. of senescere to grow old, incho. fr. senere to be old.]

Growing old; decaying with the lapse of time.

"The night was senescent." Poe. "With too senescent air."

Lowell.

 

© Webster 1913.

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