Beneke does not appear to have attempted), says that the development of the posterior glottidean space has advanced before puberty much more in boys than in girls.
Half the population of the metropolis is affected in this way; and it is the obvious consequence of the acceleration of puberty by confinement, stimulating food, indecent plays, and sexual association.
When a girl arrives at puberty she is taken to a secluded locality by some old woman versed in the art and stripped of her clothing.
The marriageable age of the female varies greatly, althoughpuberty takes place early.
The females arrive at puberty at the age of 14 or 15, and are taken as wives at even an earlier age.
A woman is married as soon after puberty as a male comes along who has the requisite physical strength to force her to become his wife.
Butler claimed, justly, that his "Life and Habit" was an advance on Hering in its dealing with questions of hybridity, and of longevity puberty and sterility.
I also pointed out how exactly the phenomena of development agreed with those of the abeyance and recurrence of memory, and the rationale of the fact that puberty in so many animals and plants comes about the end of development.
Footnote 1361: Gibbon accuses the civilians of having "rashly fixed the age of puberty at twelve or fourteen years.
Every healthy boy and girl who has reached the age of puberty may be safely allowed to ramble in any good library, however varied its contents.
The flower of sex that blossoms in the body at puberty has its spiritual counterpart which at the same moment blossoms in the soul.
With the definite eruption of physical sexual manifestation and desire, whether at puberty or later in adolescence, a new turbulent disturbing influence appears.
Information about venereal disease should not indeed be given until after puberty is well established.
In those lands where the average age of puberty is higher or lower, the age of consent should be raised or lowered accordingly.
Early familiarity with the nude in classic and early Italian art should be combined at puberty with an equal familiarity with photographs of beautiful and naturally developed nude models.
At puberty he has his great opportunity, the greatest he can ever obtain.
But after the years of pubertyhave been reached, they can bind themselves by religious vows, simple or solemn, without the consent of their parents.
For this reason children before the age of puberty are debarred from taking oaths [*Caus.
Now a vow to enter religion made by a boy or girl before the age of puberty can be revoked by the parents or guardian (20, qu.
Therefore even before attaining to puberty children can lawfully and validly be bound by a vow to enter religion.
A woman who has not reached the age of pubertyis not rebuked (Num.
Accordingly we must say that boys or girls who have not reached the years of puberty and have not attained the use of reason can nowise bind themselves to anything by vow.
Extreme scrofula may often remain until puberty and may be completely healed.
Rarely earlier developed scrofula drags beyond the age of puberty or more advanced manhood.
As regards the difference between lupus and syphilitic diseases it has been found that lupus commonly developes before puberty while syphilis appears in the mature age.
On the attainment of the years of puberty by a girl she is confined to a room, no male being allowed to see her or be seen by her.
Girls who have arrived at the age of puberty are not allowed to remain alone, as devils may possess them and drive them mad; and till three months have elapsed no fried food of any sort is given to them.
Pollution caused by a death lasts three months, by child birth one month, by a maid attaining puberty fourteen days, and by the monthly turn of a woman till she bathes.
I am pleased to find them unanimously agreed that vows taken before the age of puberty are not valid.
Among the Blackfoot Indians of North America, when a boy reaches puberty he is sent away from his father's lodge in search of a spiritual protector or totem.
The governing idea is that puberty marks the direct association of the individual with a spiritual world to the influence of which the functional changes are due.
With boys, once puberty is attained, the sexual development is orderly and unobtrusive.
Puberty does not at this stage represent what a modern would call an awakening of the religious consciousness, but a direct impingement of supernatural influence.
It is, therefore, only in line with what is found to be true elsewhere that the changes incident to puberty should receive their rational interpretation in the necessities of social life.
So far as the brain, the most important organ of all, is concerned, one may safely say that before puberty its main function has been acquisition.
At all stages the period of puberty is the time of initiation.
The phenomenon of puberty in the male and of menstruation in the female gives a terrifying reality to this belief.
One outstanding feature of this more scientific enquiry into the nature of conversion has been to demonstrate that it is almost exclusively a phenomenon of puberty and adolescence.
The whole significance, then, of puberty and adolescence is the entry of the individual into the larger life of the race.
But in substance the use made of puberty by organised religious forces remains the same throughout.
Amongst some of the Tinneh Indians of North America the dishes out of which girls eat during their seclusion at puberty "are used by no other person, and wholly devoted to their own use.
I had an internal horror of onanism, although from the very first appearance of puberty I was sensually very excitable and troubled with persistent erections.
This is gradually worked up into male and female organs of procreation; and these, when the age of puberty arrives, are generally accompanied by corresponding male and female appetites.
It is only at the age of puberty that a boy distinguishes himself abruptly from a girl, by changing his voice and growing hair on parts of the body where it is not usually found in women.
Puberty and the approach of senility are pointed out as times when genesiac symptoms manifest themselves.
The sports and games of the Seri Indians include racing and dancing, and there are ceremonial dances at the girls’ puberty feasts, accompanying the rude music of improvised drums.
The most conspicuous ceremony is the girls’ puberty feast.
Youth, a lustful puberty of early manhood, was stirring within him at last, flaming up suddenly in the chaste heart of the Catholic and amid the dignified traditions of middle age.
One day in passing a half-open door he had caught sight of a maidservant washing herself, and that was the solitary recollection which had in any way troubled his peace of mind from the days of puberty till the time of marriage.
In this country, and in other countries of about the same latitude, puberty usually occurs at the age of fourteen or fourteen and one-half years in females, and a few months later in males.
The influence of tobacco is so strongly shown in this direction that it is doubtful if there can be found a boy who has attained the age of puberty and has acquired the habit of using tobacco, who is not also addicted to this vile practice.
In man, the formation of spermatozoa continues with greater or less rapidity from puberty to old age, though at the two extremes of existence they are imperfectly developed.
Females in whom puberty occurs at the age of ten or twelve, by the time their age is doubled, are shriveled and wrinkled with age.
The menstrual function continues active from puberty to about the forty-fifth year, or during the period of fertility.
We call especial attention to this point, since there are many who erroneously suppose the early occurrence of puberty to be a sign of superior vigor.
Among most modern nations, the civil laws fixing the earliest date of marriage seem to have been made without any reference to physiology, or with the mistaken notion that puberty and nubility are identical.
A writer has said that every young person under puberty ought to be suspected of the disease.
In man, puberty commonly occurs between the ages of ten and fifteen years, varying considerably in different climates.
If a woman can get through the first two years after puberty without acquiring any serious uterine or ovarian disease, she will stand a good chance of enjoying a good degree of sexual health during the balance of her life.
Certain nationalities and families are marked by the earlier occurrence of puberty than in others.
But the evil does not always stop at this epoch of existence, it often extends throughout the life of the offspring, or it appears only with puberty and mature age.
These were women of every class and every age, from just above puberty to old women of over seventy, unmarried, married, and widows.
Among the witches there appears to have been a definite rule that no girl under puberty had sexual intercourse with the Devil.
Certainly what a man acquires of insight and knowledge up to the age of puberty is, taken as a whole, more than all that he afterwards learns, however learned he may become; for it is the foundation of all human knowledge.
The reason assigned by them for submitting to these restraints is that if they did not act thus the immature girls would attain to puberty too soon.
Again, we have seen that girls at puberty are strongly infected with taboo; hence it is not surprising to find that the Ticunas of Brazil tear out all the hair of girls at that period.
Similarly in Humbe, a kingdom of Angola, the incontinence of young people under the age of puberty used to be a capital crime, because it was believed to entail the death of the king within the year.
Again, whereas a girl atpuberty is commonly secluded as dangerous, among the Warundi of eastern Africa she is led by her grandmother all over the house and obliged to touch everything (O.
Girls, too, were scarred at puberty and had teeth knocked out, &c.
At the age of puberty the lad was tattooed or scarred with gashes cut in back, shoulders, arms and chest, and the septum of the nose was pierced.
A girl in whom the signs of puberty have not appeared does not require more than a single piece of cloth to cover her.
The mention of Nagnika, the commentator thinks, is due to an interdiction about wedding a girl of even ten years in whom signs of puberty have appeared.
The second epoch is ten to twenty-two, the time of puberty and adolescence, during which time no less than 54 per cent of all cases commence.
Freud showed that there are subconscious sexual desires in infants, which die out until reanimated at puberty in Nature's own way.
Among the Thompson Indians of British Columbia a man whose daughter has just arrived at puberty may not hunt or trap for a month, or he will have no luck.
So among the Esquimaux of Bering Strait a girl at puberty is considered unclean.
Thus if a man has seen a bear in that vision at puberty which determines an Indian's guardian spirit, he will be apt to be wounded in battle, because the bear is a slow and clumsy animal and easily trapped.
The average temperature falls slightly from infancy to puberty and again from puberty to middle age, but after that stage is passed the temperature begins to rise again, and by about the eightieth year is as high as in infancy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "puberty" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
