More now of that long-armed halberd 戊.
威, authority/threaten: The woman that has or is a battleaxe (halberd; or maybe she's carrying it over her had as that horizontal line) has some mighty threatening authority. (Don't blame me for this metaphor; Henshall says that was a term of address from a bride to her mother-in-law. Which no doubt made home life sweet and serene. 😲)
滅, destroy: The armies of Armageddon hacked with their halberds and battleaxes, and all was destroyed in fire and water.
茂, overgrown: The grass/plants that thrust like a halberd wherever they like.
歳, years old: Your age is roughly the time since your footprints 止 were taken and you were presented at the altar 示...until the current cutoff point, cut off (by the halberd?) right now. OK, it's quite a stretch. Henshall says it relates to jamming 歩 into that halberd somehow, but lordy.
威滅茂歳
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