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threescore, a. (n.) arch.|ˈθriːskɔə(r), ˌθriːˈskɔə(r)|
Forms: see three and score n.
[score n. 16.]
a. Three times twenty; sixty. (Formerly sometimes written in Roman numerals, iijxx.)
1388Wyclif Lev. xii. 5 Thre scoor and sixe daies. 1470–85Malory Arthur vi. viii. 194, I wil delyuer al the prysoners that I haue that is thre score and foure. 1535Coverdale Ps. lxxxix. [xc.] 10 The dayes of oure age are iij. score yeares & ten. 1599in Thanes of Cawdor (Spald. Club) 218 Violentlie cuttit doun iijxx dussonis young growand treis. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. (1637) 529 Almost threescore miles in length. 1699Dryden Epist. J. Driden 91 But we their sons, a pamper'd race of men, Are dwindled down to threescore years and ten. 1741Chesterfield Lett. (1792) I. 216 Very long ships, rowed by oars, some of forty, some of fifty, and threescore oars. 1850N. Hawthorne Scarlet Letter 22 The brave soldier had already numbered, nearly or quite, his threescore years and ten. 1896A. E. Housman Shropshire Lad 3 Now of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again. 1922Joyce Ulysses 683 Evermoving from immeasurably remote eons to infinitely remote futures in comparison with which the years, threescore and ten, of allotted human life formed a parenthesis of infinitesimal brevity. 1977Drive Mar.–Apr. 44/3 Cyril shed..more than threescore pounds of weight from his celebrated 28-stone frame. 1977Chicago Tribune Mag. 2 Oct. 49/1 Those of us who have attained ‘three score years and ten’ more often now look backward with nostalgia, remembering the years when we were younger.
b. absol. with ellipsis of years, in reference to age; hence as n. the age of sixty years, or transf. a person of this age. So threescore (years) and ten, seventy years.
1605Shakes. Macb. ii. iv. 1 Old man. Threescore and ten I can remember well. 1719Young Revenge ii. 18 And reverend Grey Threescore is but a Voucher. 1764Goldsm. Trav. 254 The gay grandsire..Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore. 1822Galt Provost xl, The worthy man was hale and hearty, not exceeding three score and seven. Mod. He has long passed the three score and ten.
†c. Used as ordinal numeral (threescore and one = sixty-first). Obs.
1596Danett tr. Comines (1614) 219 The King..when he died was well forward in the threescore and one yeere.
Hence † threescorth a. Obs. [-th2], sixtieth.
1571Golding Calvin on Ps. xlv. 1 The threescorthe Psalme is intytled (A Lilly). 1657North's Plutarch, Add. Lives (1676) 38 Acacanius the threescorth King of the Scots. |