a. Obs. Also 5–6 caduc, 5–7 caduque. [a. F. caduc (fem. caduque):—L. cadūcus.]

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  1.  Falling, liable to fall.

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c. 1420.  Pallad. on Husb., XII. 134. The fruite caduke.

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  2.  Fleeting, transitory, perishable, corruptible.

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1484.  Caxton, Curial, 4. Our lyf … ne hath glorye mondayne ne pompe caduque wythoute aduersyte.

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1509.  Fisher, Wks. I. (E. E. T.), 196. Euery thynge in this worlde is caduke.

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1549.  Compl. Scot., 170. To fle thir varldly caduc honouris.

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1651.  Stanley, Poems, 242. Caduque corruptible bodies.

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1688.  G. Miége, Gt. Fr. Dict., Caduke or crazy.

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  3.  Of persons: Infirm, feeble.

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1510–20.  Compl. to late maryed (1862), 10. I am all caduc, and wery for age.

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1541.  R. Copland, Guydon’s Quest. Chirurg. Yonge, vertuous and stronge, so that he be nat caduke nor shakynge of his handes.

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  4.  Epileptic; = CADUCOUS 4.

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1398.  Trevisa, Barth De P. R., XVIII. i. (1495), 746. Caduc men that haue the fallyng euyll.

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