seventeenth

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And now the seventeenth was here, to-day.

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  1. noun The ordinal number matching the number 17 in a series.
  2. noun One of 17 equal parts.

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  • The prospect was encouraging; there was no doubt at all of the elasticity of the Articles: to take a palmary instance, the seventeenth was assumed by one party to be Lutheran, by another Calvinistic, though the two interpretations were contradictory of each other; why then should not other Articles be drawn up with a vagueness of an equally intense character? —  Apologia Pro Vita Sua
  • The prospect was encouraging; there was no doubt at all of the elasticity of the Articles: to take a palmary instance, the seventeenth was assumed by one party to be Lutheran, by another Calvinistic, though the two interpretations were contradictory to each other; why then should not other Articles be drawn up with a vagueness of an equally intense character? —  Apologia pro Vita Sua
  • Then the telescope will reveal stars still fainter and fainter, down to what we term the seventeenth or eighteenth magnitudes, or even lower still. —  Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky
  • And now the seventeenth was here, to-day. —  V. V.'s Eyes
  • His imagination was so wide and his pen so facile that he has been called a seventeenth-century prose Shakespeare. —  Halleck's New English Literature
 

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  1. With restored n in the last syllable, from Middle English * seventethe, seventithe, from Anglo-Saxon seofon-teótha = OFries. siuguntinda = Dutch zeven-tiende = Middle High German siben-zehende, German siebzehnte = Icelandic seytjāndi sau-tjāndi, sjautjāndi = Swedish sjuttonde = Danish s yttende; as seventeen + -th.
 

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