Crossword clues for nonage
nonage
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. The state of being under legal age; minority, the fact of being a minor. (from 15th c.) Etymology 2
n. (context obsolete rare English) A payment formerly made from to the parish clergy upon the death of a parishioner, consisting of a ninth of the movable goods.
WordNet
Usage examples of "nonage".
To inform the mind, and govern the actions of their yet ignorant nonage, till reason shall take its place and ease them of that trouble, is what the children want, and the parents are bound to.
But after that the father and son are equally free, as much as tutor and pupil, after nonage, equally subjects of the same law together, without any dominion left in the father over the life, liberty, or estate of his son, whether they be only in the state and under the law of Nature, or under the positive laws of an established government.
It is but a help to the weakness and imperfection of their nonage, a discipline necessary to their education.
The power of commanding ends with nonage, and though after that honour and respect, support and defence, and whatsoever gratitude can oblige a man to, for the highest benefits he is naturally capable of be always due from a son to his parents, yet all this puts no sceptre into the father’s hand, no sovereign power of commanding.
Society has had absolute power over them during all the early portion of their existence: it has had the whole period of childhood and nonage in which to try whether it could make them capable of rational conduct in life.