Obs. [f. FATHER sb. + AGE.] a. The time of life when one is a father; hence, a mature age. b. An age earlier than the present, a period gone by.
1596. Q. Eliz., Lett., in Tytler, Hist. Scot. (1864), IV. 350. Were it in the nonage of a prince, it might have some colour; but in a Father-age, it seemeth strange, and, I daresay, without example.
1633. P. Fletcher, Purple Isl., I. ix.
| Tell me, ye Muses, what our father-ages | |
| Have left succeeding times to play upon. |
