Both Uses of
senile
in
1984 by Orwell
- It was a lean Jewish face, with a great fuzzy aureole of white hair and a small goatee beard — a clever face, and yet somehow inherently despicable, with a kind of senile silliness in the long thin nose, near the end of which a pair of spectacles was perched.†
p. 12..5 *
- Suppose that we quicken the tempo of human life till men are senile at thirty.†
p. 269..3
Definition:
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(senile) mental weakness caused by old age; or describing a medical condition as caused by old age