Defn: The quality or state of being senile; old age.
SENIOR
Sen"ior, a. Etym: [L. senior, compar. of senex, gen. senis, old. See
Sir.]
1. More advanced than another in age; prior in age; elder; hence, more advanced in dignity, rank, or office; superior; as, senior member; senior counsel.
2. Belonging to the final year of the regular course in American colleges, or in professional schools.
SENIOR
Sen"ior, n.
1. A person who is older than another; one more advanced in life.
2. One older in office, or whose entrance upon office was anterior to that of another; one prior in grade.
3. An aged person; an older. Dryden. Each village senior paused to scan, And speak the lovely caravan. Emerson.
4. One in the fourth or final year of his collegiate course at an American college; — originally called senior sophister; also, one in the last year of the course at a professional schools or at a seminary.
SENIORITY
Sen*ior"i*ty, n.