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Superannuation   Listen
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Superannuation  n.  The state of being superannuated, or too old for office or business; the state of being disqualified by old age; decrepitude. "The world itself is in a state of superannuation." "Slyness blinking through the watery eye of superannuation."






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"Superannuation" Quotes from Famous Books



... be satisfactory, they were received permanently as Sisters. These Sisters wore a distinctive dress, received an annual stipend of about twenty guineas, and were provided with a home during the intervals of their engagements. There was also a "Superannuation Fund" for the relief of those Sisters who should, after long service, fall into indigence or ill-health. Christian women, of all denominations, were encouraged to join the institution; while the services ...
— Elizabeth Fry • Mrs. E. R. Pitman

... and refers us to them for such evolution of one species from another, he abandons the fundamental principle of his school—the uniformity of nature—and falls back on Christian ground the necessity for supernatural origins. He virtually admits the death or superannuation of Natural Selection, since it has retired from the ...
— Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith - Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity • Robert Patterson

... plumper, juicier date never dropped from Idumean palm. Am I in the dateive case now? If not, a fig for dates,—which is more than a date is worth. I never stood much affected to these limitary specialities,—least of all, since the date of my superannuation. ...
— The Best Letters of Charles Lamb • Charles Lamb

... Kant's inquiry. What he wished to know was simply the exact stage in the whole course of her development which the Earth at present occupies. Is she still in her infancy, for example, or in a stage corresponding to middle age, or in a stage approaching to superannuation? The idea of Kant presupposed a certain average duration as belonging to a planet of our particular system; and supposing this known, or discoverable, and that a certain assignable development belonged to a planet so circumstanced as ours, then in what particular ...
— Theological Essays and Other Papers v1 • Thomas de Quincey

... given, and security of tenure is, with few exceptions, assured. Again, the work done in the State schools is now generally and rightly regarded as of first-rate importance to the community, and therefore as meriting national gratitude in the form of Government superannuation. Popular prejudice against compulsory education, once so strong, may now be said to have disappeared, and the work of the pioneers who endeavoured to create a public opinion in its favour, has borne fruit. To-day the parents' attitude towards the teacher ...
— Women Workers in Seven Professions • Edith J. Morley

... what Medea's caldron is it that the great lawyers so cook themselves, that they are able to achieve half an immortality, even while the body still clings to the soul? Mr. Die, though he would talk of his bald head, had no idea of giving way to time. Superannuated! The men who think of superannuation at sixty are those whose lives have been idle, not they who have really buckled themselves to work. It is my opinion that nothing seasons the mind for endurance like hard work. Port ...
— Castle Richmond • Anthony Trollope



Words linked to "Superannuation" :   dismission, retirement check, sack, liberation, oldness, retirement fund, sacking, obsoleteness, firing, retirement pension, dismissal, superannuation fund, old-age pension, pension, superannuate, release, retirement benefit



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