Senex

Quick meaning: Senex is a noun meaning An older or old man, chiefly as a stock character.

Meaning

An older or old man, chiefly as a stock character.

Example Sentences

Now for more about the four birds, explicitly identified with the four evangelists as the four old men or Senexes. Notice the repetition on four as the four Gospel books repeat much of the same history of Christ, perhaps as a result of an editorial effort to achieve uniformity.

It concludes, though, not with an image of resigned heads or rebellious newcomers: instead, after the camera lifts for the final credits to the heavens—the only site for the senexes’ social and educational ideals?—it descends on the playing fields where the school’s ration-book-resourceful porter Rainbow (Edward Rigby) and his youthful assistant are seen collapsed under the frequently-removed rugby posts.

Word Forms

• senexes

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include old man, senior, elder, elderly, granddad, genarian.

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