a. Worn by process of time; impaired by age.
1729. Savage, Wanderer, v. 3. By time-worn Steps a steep Ascent we gain.
1813. W. S. Walker, Poems, 152. On the green margin of the quiet flood,… a time-worn exile stood.
1901. Birrell, Misc., iii. (1902), 82. An ancient, time-worn ritual, which gives dim expression to ghostly ideas.
