Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. ordinal The ordinal form of number seventy-eight, describing a person or thing in position number 78 of a sequence.
- n. fractional One of seventy-eight equal parts of a whole.
Examples
“Five years ago, right before her seventy-eighth birthday, my mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's.”
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“Then into Two World Trade Center at the Liberty Street entrance and up the elevator to the seventy-eighth floor, out again, across the lobby to another elevator, and off at the eightieth, and over to his desk for Mizuho Bank, where he was a computer systems operator.”
“Two days after the funeral, Louisa and her father quietly celebrated their forty-fifth and seventy-eighth birthdays.”
“I quickly made my way down to the seventy-eighth floor and the main elevator banks.”
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“While he gave demonstrations of some of his earlier marvels - his exhibition of a radio-guided teleautomatic boat filled Madison Square Garden in 1898 - he became oracular in his later years and, for example, offered no proof of the potent "death-ray" that he announced in 1934, on his seventy-eighth birthday.”
“To-day, we are called to celebrate the seventy-eighth anniversary of American Independence.”
“If you don't listen to His words, He's going to damn you to hell for all eternity - but if you kiss up to Him he'll forgive you the seventy-eighth time you beat your wife and take you right back.”
“The first sense is no more valid than the one hundred & seventy-eighth sense.”
“Half an hour after midnight, on the eighth of February, she fell asleep: it is supposed in her seventy-eighth year.”
“Crevice, in the one hundred and seventy-eighth page of the first volume of this book of books, — here are two senses — quoth he. —”
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
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