If this happens outside their age, which is likely, appoint lobgiers to fulfill the duty for them of a laudable allowance, but reap the fruits for the maintenance of your grandchildren until they reach adulthood to be ordained, “&c. minority, majority; childhood, adulthood; Nonage, full age – here you have the three contrasting pairs that make up the vocabulary of the legal age. Minority, childhood and non-age are synonyms that signify the state or time of majority. Age of majority, adulthood and age of majority refer to the state or time of majority. (All of these words, especially infancy and adulthood, naturally have other meanings.) Nonage came to us through English from an Anglo-French association of elderly and non-elderly people, who together do not mean becoming adults. I think that during my non-age, I had the reputation of a very grumpy youth, but I was always a favorite of my schoolmaster, who used to say “that my pieces were solid and wore well”. Most of us spend a good part of our lives freeing our minds from notions that have appeared uncontrollably during our non-old age. For we cannot deny the Church of God, both in Asia and in Africa, if we do not forget the wanderings of the Apostles, the death of the martyrs, the meetings of many legitimate councils and (even according to our Reformed judgment) which we have held in those parts of our minority and our non-elderly. Some laws specify how people marry; These typically include both procedural requirements and who can marry, including prohibitions on consanguinity, non-age, and homosexual status in many states. He sometimes places children above men and the imagination of the non-age above wisdom and experience. In my non-age, I held a grudge, as I matured, I was balanced, now I am progressing in my Dotage. During Nero`s non-age, he persisted in his studies and made great strides in Greek. Guilbert Ralston, one of the seven sons of a wealthy merchant prince who terrorized the country as a teenager (we are not told where he is), disappears “when he is not yet old”.
You and I should, you know, become men and women when we were little more than children – we went through the passions and adventures of youth in our non-age, and so we are now old before our day, and the winter of our lives has arrived before its summer has well begun. England is no more in its endowment than America is in its non-age. In a better world, places of worship would never be welcome, but would only be tolerated as remnants of humanity`s non-age. Had he not himself signed anti-national treaties almost before he was out of majority? Marriages are usually arranged by non-elderly mothers, but consult with the bride in question. The Volokh Conspiracy » Iowa Court Judge rules on same-sex marriage: Theme music by Joshua Stamper 2006©New Jerusalem Music/ASCAP Middle English, from Anglo-French, non- + age age.