precocity, n.Definitions

Precocity (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠forced fruit, immature and flavourless, rotten before it is ripe: young doctors and old children.

Precocity (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠bitten by frost at the root while the upper part still blooms a little, and for that reason seems to be still alive and flourishing.

Precocity (n.) in ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠sexual life comes from imagination kindling the senses rather than the senses kindling imagination, which is why it is earlier among the civilised than the barbarous.

Precocity (n.) of ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the sexual kind often runs alongside intellectual precocity in the childhoods of the most distinguished and productive people, where it is less harmful than when it appears alone.