V. Unto the Measure of TIME may be adjoyned for its affinity the word which signifies the Permanency of any thing in its existence,* from its beginning to its end, DURATION, abide, continue, persist, endure, hold out, last long, persevere, everlasting, survive.

Time is usually distributed by the Revolution of the heavenly Bodies, or rather of the Earth and Moon, into such Spaces as are required to a revolution of the

• Earth in its Orb; according to the
  • Whole
    • YEAR, Twelvemonth, Anniversary, Annual, Biennial, &c.
  • Parts; considerable as being the proper seasons for the
    • Growth and ripening of Vegetables.
      • SPRING, Vernal.
      • SUMMER.
    • Decaying of Vegetables, according to ‖ a lesser: or greater degree.
      • AUTUMN, Fall of the Leaf, Harvest.
      • WINTER, Hybernal, hyemal.
• Moon in its own proper course about the Earth: to which may be ad∣joyned the usual name given to the fourth part of this.
  • MONTH, Menstrual.
  • Fortnight.
    • waxing phase
    • waning phase
  • WEEK, Sennight,
• Earth about its Axis; according to the
  • Whole
    • DAY NATURAL, Quotidian.
  • Parts;
    • Greater;
      • Time while the Sun continues ‖ above: or below the Horizon.
        • DAY ARTIFICIAL, Diurnal.
        • NIGHT, Nocturnal, Pernoctation, lodge.
          • Full Moon
          • New Moon
      • Part of the day artificial, ‖ former: or later.
        • MORNING, Mattins, early, dawning, betimes.
        • AFTERNOON, Evening.
    • Lesser parts of time; being each of them ‖ the 24th part of a natu∣ral day, called an Hour: or the 60th part of an hour.
      • HOUR, Horary.
      • MINUTE.
      • SECOND

Life-time, or the AGE of LIVING Creatures, (as particularly applied to Men,* to which there is something answerable in other Ani∣mals; to which may be adjoyned the word SECULUM, Age, Estate, Generation,) is, according to common use, distinguished by such Terms as do denote the gradual differences of it.

• The first and most imperfect State, when ‖ destitute of the use of reason: or having but little use of it▪ comprehending the two first ten years.
  • INFANCY, Babe, Child, Cub.
  • CHILDHOOD, Boy, Girl, Wench, green years·
• The less imperfect Age, subject to the sway of Passions; ‖ either more, or less, containing the third and fourth ten years.
  • ADOLESCENCY, adult, Lad, Springal, Stripling, Youth, Lass, Da∣mosel, Wench.
  • YOUTH, Iuvenile, Younker.
• The perfect Age as to the Body: or the declining Age of the Body, but most perfect for the Mind, styled vergens aetas, or the Age of Wisdom; the former comprehending the space betwixt the 40th and the 50th, and the latter containing the space betwixt the 50th and the 60th year.
  • MANHOOD, virile, middle age.
  • DECLINING AGE, elderly.
• The last and most imperfect Age, by reason of the decay of Vigor, which commonly happens both in Body and Mind, ‖ either according to the first and better part of it: or the last and worst part of this State, reaching from the 60th to the 70th, and from thence for the time after.
  • OLD AGE.
  • DECREPIDNESS, Crone.