Broken Down by Age

Broken down by age crossword clue. A Herald Sun quick one crossword question on Friday, Augustus 4, 2017. 8 letters.

Answer: DECREPIT

It will suffice to recall the Buddha’s education in a secluded palace, his encounter successively with a decrepit old man, with a man in mortal disease and poverty, with a dead body, and, lastly, with a religious recluse radiant with peace and dignity, and his consequent abandonment of his princely state for the ascetic life in the jungle.

The provincial schools, dependent upon so decrepit an alma mater, were suffered to decay.

Sometimes Athena disguises him as a decrepit beggar, sometimes she bestows on him supernatural beauty and vigour.