a. and sb. Obs. Also 6–7 -all, 7 iuvinal. [ad. L. juvenāl-is (= juvenīl-is) of or belonging to youth, f. juvenis a young person.]
A. adj. Juvenile.
1638. T. Whitaker, Blood of Grape, 43. More hot then ripe and juvenall age.
1733. [see JUVENILE B. 1].
1821. Blackw. Mag., X. 33/1. A classical book of juvenal sports.
B. sb. A youth; a ‘juvenile.’
1588. Shaks., L. L. L., I. ii. 8. How canst thou part sadnesse and melancholy my tender Iuuenall?
1607. Dekker & Webster, Westw. Hoe, III. i. D.’s Wks. 1873, II. 320. I am one of his Iuvinals.
1664. Cotton, Scarron., IV. (1741), 72. She the small Ascanius takes, Troy’s Juvenal.
[1820. Scott, Monast., xiv. (Sir Piercie Shafton is representat as saying) Touching this juvenal, he hath that about him which belongeth to higher birth.]
