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1241 Counsels on Secular Worldview, p. 98.2 (Ellen G. White Estate)
… of years, especially when considering the existence of fossils claimed to be millions of years old. It relies on the assumption that the rate of carbon-14 …
1242 Counsels on Secular Worldview, p. 99.3 (Ellen G. White Estate)
… involves the lack of transitional fossils and the existence of "living fossils." These organisms, such as the coelacanth and the horseshoe crab, have remained …
1243 Counsels on Christian Worldview, p. 139.3 (Ellen G. White Estate)
… for the ages of all these rock layers. This theory dates the oldest multicellular fossils (lower Cambrian, the lowest part of the Paleozoic) as over 500 million …
1244 Counsels on Christian Worldview, p. 143.2 (Ellen G. White Estate)
… rock’s age in years; they only measure the amount of each element in the rock, and the ratio between elements ‒ not the rock’s age. Researchers then make some …
1245 Counsels on Christian Worldview, p. 144.2 (Ellen G. White Estate)
Radiometric ages give a sequence of dates for the rocks, oldest in the lowest Paleozoic, and younger up through the rock formations. This sequence is meaningful …
1246 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ADULT.3 (Noah Webster)
ADULT, n. A person grown to full size and strength, or to the years of manhood. It is also applied to full grown plants. among civilians, a person between fourteen and twenty-five years of age.
1247 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ADVANCED.1 (Noah Webster)
ADVANCED, pp. Moved forward; promoted; improved; furnished beforehand; situated in front, or before the rest; also old, having reached the decline of life; as, advanced in years; an advanced age.
1248 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. AGE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; as, the usual age of man is seventy years; the age of a horse may be twenty or thirty years; the age of a tree may be four hundred years.
1249 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. AGE.8 (Noah Webster)
5. The period when a person is enabled by law to do certain acts for himself, or when he ceases to be controlled by parents or guardians; as, in our country, both males and females are of age in twenty-one years old.
1250 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BISHOP.8 (Noah Webster)
… thirty years of age; and all bishops, except the bishop of Man, are peers of the realm.
1251 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BOY.2 (Noah Webster)
A male child, from birth to the age of puberty; but in general, applied to males under ten or twelve years of age; a lad. Sometimes it is used in contempt for a young man, indicating immaturity, want of vigor or judgment.
1252 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CONSUL.2 (Noah Webster)
… in the campus Martius. In the first ages of Tome, they were elected from Patrician families or noblemen; but in the year of Rome 388, the people obtained the privilege …
1253 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DECEASE.4 (Noah Webster)
Gen. Washington deceased, December 14, 1799, in the 68th year of his age.
1254 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DISTANCE.8 (Noah Webster)
5. Space of time; any indefinite length of time, past or future, intervening between two periods or events; as the distance of an hour, of a year, of an age.
1255 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EAGLE.3 (Noah Webster)
… called the king of birds. Hence the figure of an eagle was made the standard of the Romans, and a spread eagle is a principal figure in the arms of the United States …
1256 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ELEPHANT.2 (Noah Webster)
… hard. The bony substance of these is called ivory. The elephant is 30 years in coming to his full growth, and he lives to 150 or 200 years of age. Elephants are natives …
1257 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ENSUE.6 (Noah Webster)
1. To follow in a train of events or course of time; to succeed; to come after. He spoke and silence ensued. We say, the ensuing age or years; the ensuing events.
1258 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ENTER.4 (Noah Webster)
3. To begin in a business, employment or service; to enlist or engage in; as, the soldier entered the service at eighteen years of age.
1259 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HEAD.13 (Noah Webster)
10. State of a deer’s horns by which his age is known. The buck is called, the fifth year, a buck of the first head.
1260 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HEARSE.4 (Noah Webster)
3. A hind in the second year of her age.