anile

• In my own opinion he is infinitely handsomer and more attractive than when I saw him first, sixteen years ago—which does not mean as much as you may suppose, that I myself am superannuated and wholly anile, and incompetent therefore for judgment. —  The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II
• In my own opinion he is infinitely handsomer and more attractive than when I saw him first, sixteen years ago--which does not mean as much as you may suppose, that I myself am superannuated and wholly anile, and incompetent therefore for judgment. —  The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II
• I happen to possess the work; and a more anile, credulous, solemn fop never existed since the days of old Audley. —  Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4.
• Our babbling, anile friend, in the very looseness of her prating has let out the truth. —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 2, 1841
• The other is, that the idiocy of the boy is so evenly balanced by the folly of the mother, as to present to the general reader rather a laughable burlesque on the blindness of anile dotage, than an analytic display of maternal affection in its ordinary workings. —  Biographia Literaria

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