nonadult (nonadult)

and n. I. a. Not arrived at adult age; in a state of pupilage; immature. II. n. One who has not arrived at adult age; a youth. non compos ment is And that he calls for drink, I'll have prepared him A chalice for the nonce. Shak., Hamlet, iv. 7. 161. I think that the New England of the seventeenth century can afford to allow me, for the nonce at least, to extend its name to all the independent English-speaking lands on its own side of Ocean.