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elder adj.: older (freq.) Mer.V. IV. i. 251 “How much more art thou than thy looks!” ; more advanced, belonging to a later period R2 II. iii. 43 “ days,” Cym. V. i. 14;—sb. aged person 2H4 II. iv. 281, Cæs. I. ii. 7; senator Cor. I. i. 232, II. ii. 47.