All 5 Uses of
senile
in
Arrowsmith
- On the senile table was a pile of memoranda of debts which the Doc was always swearing he would "collect from those dead-beats right now," and which he would never, by any chance, at any time, collect from any of them.†
Chpt 1senile = mental weakness caused by old age; or describing a medical condition as caused by old age
- When he went from that place Max Gottlieb walked slowly, without purpose, and in his eyes were senile tears.†
Chpt 12 *
- He made the fruit to grow so well that man need not work—and then He laughed, and stuck in volcanoes and snakes and damp heat and early senility and the plague and malaria.†
Chpt 34senility = mental weakness caused by old age
- The doctors say it's senile dementia.†
Chpt 36senile = mental weakness caused by old age; or describing a medical condition as caused by old age
- In his cups, though he severely retained his moral and elegant vocabulary, Clif chronicled the jest of selling oil-wells unprovided with oil and of escaping before the law closed in; the cleverness of joining churches for the purpose of selling stock to the members; and the edifying experience of assisting Dr. Benoni Carr to capture a rich and senile widow for his sanitarium by promising to provide medical consultation from the spirit-world.†
Chpt 39
Definition:
weakness from old age (especially mental weakness); or describing a medical condition as caused by old age