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.