I certainly hope that the new entries will not be aged people of sixty or seventy or even touching the extreme senility of the octogenarian.
He was referring to my distinguished octogenarian predecessor of the same surname, who, unhappily, is not with us to appreciate the joke and the flattery.
I came of age in 1929 when anyone not yet an octogenarian would have been a schoolboy or perhaps even unborn.
That figure will increase to over 1 million by 2000 —the largest number of octogenarians this country has ever had.
It is by the exercise here and now of the very opposite spirit that we may help to end that octogenarian schism.
That is not eight years old in computer terms but octogenarian because the free flow of information technology has outstripped all of the initial proposals.
The octogenarian tendency in the other place shows remarkable signs of life, and great spirit.
You will find the genial octogenarian coming up.