一切經音義 59.87

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Senile (老耄): Two glyph forms, now written as 耗, identical. Mo and bao fan. The Book of Rites says: 'At eighty, one is called mao.' Zheng Xuan says: 'Mao means confused and forgetful.' The Zuo zhuan says: 'When getting old, one should know that senility (mao) will also catch up with him.' Du Yu says: 'Mao means muddled.'

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese