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canescere

canescere [CL] , to grow white or grey (w. age); b (fig.). quare homines in senectute precipue ~ant Adel. QN 20; fons ‥ quo si quis abluitur non ~et amplius Gir. TH II 7; mento canescant alii, nos mente J. Exon. BT I 19.  b 1434 miror ‥ cur ‥ / canescant scripta que concepit canonista (Vers. Abbatis) Amund. II 103.

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