xii.

"xii." might do for December, but it was now the 4th of December not the 29th.

Erewhon Revisited Samuel Butler 1868

Hence a gloss on II Corinthians xii. 20 says that “seditions are tumults tending to fight,” when, to wit, a number of people make preparations with the intention of fighting.

The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas Dino Bigongiari 1997

The .xii. if the wynde be in the east, and that is worste.

Philocrites: It's Friday: Time for Middle English cooking! 2005

Ȝette he him sceawede ane welle of fure ⁊ alle hire stremes urnen fur berni {n} de. ⁊ þa  {20} welle bi {} wisten .xii. meister

Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall

And betwene the houres of .xii. and one at noone, or at midnight he vseth them.

The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913

` And I gyue the .xii. pens a day, 'sayd the quene,

Adam Bell, Clym Clough 1898

Evangelists, if the facts related by him in xii., 20, seq., took place after Christ's entry, on the same day, and if Christ retired from the public immediately after his last warning to the Jews.

The Life of Jesus Christ in Its Historical Connexion and Historical Developement. 1789-1850 1870

¶ And what is more marueylous thã Vrsinus a childe of .xii. yeres olde? for the remẽbraunce of him, he also in a very eligãte epistle put in eternall memorye.

The Education of Children Desiderius Erasmus 1502

But I haue knowen childrẽ, whych before they wer .xii. yere old, had more thẽ .xii. masters, and that thorowe the rechelesnesse of their parẽtes.

The Education of Children Desiderius Erasmus 1502

But we learn from Strabo, at the end of Book .xii. that the school both of the one and the other flourished till about his time in Asia, the one near Laodicea, and the other at Smyrna.

Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprizing Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer ... 1812