silicernius

silicernius, ~us [CL as sb. n.] 1 (as adj.) old, decrepit, moribund. b sluggish, immobile. c (assoc. w. silex). an alde man, gerion; ubi alde, geronta, ~us CathA.  b plumbeus, ~us, sompnolentus, iners Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 180.  c hic silex ‥ unde ‥ hic ~us, i. moribundus, quasi silicem, i. sepulcrum cernens Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 532. 2 (as sb. m. or n.) old man (cf. Ter. Ad. 587). optabatque gravem silicernius affore mortem Frith. 1302; cerritus balatro, spurcus si non silicernus Altercatio 16; Otmundus ‥ nequam ~ius Arcas relegatus est Ord. Vit. XII 18 p. 363; silicernus ‥ sepulcrum cernens, et inde hoc ~ium, -ii, quod idem significat, unde Terentius ‥ ‘ego te exercebo ‥ silicernium’ Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 532; quum jam ~us erat, nec per se illos adire potuit, hoc opus per discipulos suos adimpleri voluit J. Furness Kentig. 34 p. 220; Anglis prodesset, licet hoc silicernius esset / cujus et in morte misera ruit Anglia forte M. Cornw. Montfort 142.