day's age

English

Noun

day's age

1. (rare, dated, obsolete) The number of hours that have passed since the beginning of the day; the current time.
   • 1810, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopaedia Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature, Volume 9, page 6:

     which phænomenon denotes full moon a little short of the fifteenth day's age;

   • 1871, Lanceford Bramblet Wilkes, Jacob Ditzler, The Louisville Debate, A Discussion of the Question, what is Christian Baptism, Including Its Proper Subjects and Design, page 176:

     Origen's parvuli were those of only one day's age, and on to two or three years.

   • 1872, Thomas Norton, The Hermit, a Poem And Miscellaneous Verse, page 48:

     When Gilbert who lean'd musing whilst she sat, Counting the day's age on a sun-dial near,