eighthadj.n.

/eɪtθ/

Forms: eahtoða, eah-, ehteða- (late West Saxon also eahteoða), Old English–Middle English eah-, ehtuða, -ðe, Middle English eihteoðe, -tuðe, eg-, ehteðe, Middle English eiȝteðe, -iþe, aȝtþe, Middle English eghtid, eyted, 1600s– eighth: from Middle English– the forms are often identical with those of the cardinal, Middle English eiȝt, Middle English eȝte, heyt, aght, Middle English eght, Middle English–1500s eyght, 1500s awght, ayghte, Middle English–1800s eight, Scottish aucht.

Etymology: Old English eahtoða = Old High German ahtodo (Middle High German ahtode , ahtede , ahte , modern German achte ) representing Old Germanic type ahˈtoþon- , < *ahtau , *ahtô eight adj. and n. (The Old Saxon ahtodo , Gothic ahtuda represent a type *ˈahtođon- , the result of accent-shifting or of analogy; for the Old Frisian and Old Norse forms see eightin adj.

A. adj.

a. That comes next in order to the seventh.

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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eight > [adjective] > eighth

eightha1000

eightinc1200

a1000 Menologium (Gr.) 3 Crist wæs..on þy eahteoðan dæg Hælend gehaten.

c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 298 Eahtoþe is þæs stanes mægen, þæt, etc.

c1175 Lamb. Hom. 81 Þet me sculde in þe ehtuþe dei þet knaue child embsniþen.

c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 76 Þe eahtuðe þing. hu muchel is þe mede iþe blisse of heouene.

a1300 Signs before Judgm. 113 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 10 Þe eiȝt dai so is dotus and þat ful wel þou salt se.

a1300 Cursor Mundi 29310 Þe aght case falles all þa in þat any witchecraft gers bigyn.

138. J. Wyclif Serm. in Sel. Wks. II. 267 Þe eiȝtiþe condicioun.

1477 T. Norton Ordinall of Alchimy vi, in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 100 The vertue of the Eight sphere.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Kings viii. 66 And on the eight daye he let the people go.

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 6222 The Eghtid Batell in the burgh [was] Vnder Serces..the souerain of Perce.

1552 Abp. J. Hamilton Catech. Tabil sig. *.iii Ye rycht keping of y^e aucht command.

1605 T. Heywood If you know not Me sig. C^v If it be treason to be the daughter To th'Eight Henry;..I am a traytor.

1615 Bp. J. Hall Recoll. Treat. 814 Let him heare Origen, what hee answers in the eight volume of his explanations of Esay.

1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 62 in Sylva The sixth, eighth or tenth day.

1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1838) V. liii. 266 But the seventh and eighth centuries were a period of discord and darkness.

1887 Gray's Anat. (ed. 11) 667 The eighth or auditory nerve.

b. With ellipsis of the noun, to be supplied from context. Also in dates, with ellipsis of day (of the month).

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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eight > [noun] > that which is eighth

eighthOE

OE Guthlac B 1037 Ne bið þæs lengra swice sawelgedales þonne seofon niht fyrstgemearces, þæt min feorh heonan on þisse eahteþan ende geseceð.

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1810) 473 The eiȝtethe was, that..citacion non nere Thoru bulle of the pope.

a1400 Cov. Myst. (1841) 83 The eyted is contempt of veyn glory in us.

c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 1010 Þe aȝtþe þe beryl cler & quyt.

c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 77 Þe heyt. Crist biddiþ in þe gospel to His vicar, turn þe swerd in to þe scheþ.

1526 Bible (Tyndale) Rev. xxi. 20 The ayghte berall.

1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius Cathechisme or Schort Instr. 183 The awght is meiknes quhilk assuages and mitigats al angrie motions of ire.

1642 King Charles I Answer Petition presented at Yorke 18 Apr. 1 Our Message of the eighth of April.

1647 W. Lilly Christian Astrol. xliv. 257 When the Lord of the Ascendant is..in the Antiscion of the Lord of the eighth.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 67 The space of seven continu'd Nights he [sc. Satan] rode With darkness..On the eighth return'd.

1861 E. B. Ramsay Reminisc. Sc. Life 2nd Ser. 181 She answered them..‘The tongue no man can tame..James Third and Aucht’, and drank off her glass.

2. eighth part n. one of eight equal parts into which a quantity may be divided.

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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eight > [noun] > division into eight > an eighth

eighth part1523

eighth1557

sub-octave1721

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cxxvii. 154 He had nat the eyght part in nombre of men as the frenche kynge had.

?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) iii. ix. sig. R ij An eight part of the great Pyramis HIK.

1660 tr. H. Blum Bk. Five Collumnes Archit. (new ed.) A. c One eight part of the thicknesse.

3. eighth note n. U.S. = quaver n. 1.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > [noun] > quaver

quaver1556

demi-crotchet1659

eighth note1889

eighth1956

1889 in Cent. Dict.

1958 R. P. Blesh & H. Janis They all played Ragtime iv. 77 Unaccented eighth notes alternating with accented quarter notes.

B. n.

a. = eighth part n. at sense A. 2. See A. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eight > [noun] > division into eight > an eighth

eighth part1523

eighth1557

sub-octave1721

1557 R. Record Whetstone of Witte sig. Bii^v An eight more.

1747 J. Lind Lett. Navy (1757) i. 23 The commander in chief is to have one half of the eight.

1842 J. C. Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 391 The Muskhoyees from seven eighths of what is termed the Creek Confederacy.

b. Military. eighth-wheel, when a body of troops revolves upon its centre or one of its ends to the extent of one-eighth part of a circle.

ΚΠ

1796 Instr. & Regulations Cavalry 130 According to the degree ordered, whether half, quarter, or eighth wheel.

1796 Instr. & Regulations Cavalry 144 The eighth wheel is toward the flank which is to be the head of the column..advantage will arise if the eighth wheel is made on the center of each body.

†a. Music. = octave v. Obsolete. An interval of seven notes of the diatonic scale.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > interval > [noun] > octave

diapasona1398

eighth1597

octave1694

ottava1724

septime1764

1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 70 A third, a Fift, a Sixt, and an eight.

1652 News from Lowe Countreys 8 He..Knows Thirds, Fifths, Eights, Rests, Moods, and Time.

1694 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 18 73 He next Observes, that all Progressions by Concords, except by Eighths, produce Discord.

1706 A. Bedford Temple Musick iii. 54 They sang the..Part an Eighth, or Seven Notes higher than the Men.

b. The note separated from any given one above or below by an interval of an eighth.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > interval > [noun] > octave > tone one or more octaves apart

eighth1609

replicate1730

1609 J. Dowland tr. A. Ornithoparchus Micrologus 15 In b fa ♯ mi, and his eight, you may not sing mi for fa.

1660 J. Playford Brief Introd. Skill Musick (ed. 3) i. 3 Which will be the same, and onely Eights to those above.

1685 R. Boyle Ess. Effects of Motion vii. 88 I made him raise his Voice to an Eighth.

c. = eighth note n. at sense A. 3.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > [noun] > quaver

quaver1556

demi-crotchet1659

eighth note1889

eighth1956

1956 M. W. Stearns Story of Jazz (1957) xxi. 273 Iturbi produces the feeling that he is playing straight (not dotted) eighths.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

单词	eighth
释义	eighthadj.n. /eɪtθ/ Forms: eahtoða, eah-, ehteða- (late West Saxon also eahteoða), Old English–Middle English eah-, ehtuða, -ðe, Middle English eihteoðe, -tuðe, eg-, ehteðe, Middle English eiȝteðe, -iþe, aȝtþe, Middle English eghtid, eyted, 1600s– eighth: from Middle English– the forms are often identical with those of the cardinal, Middle English eiȝt, Middle English eȝte, heyt, aght, Middle English eght, Middle English–1500s eyght, 1500s awght, ayghte, Middle English–1800s eight, Scottish aucht. Etymology: Old English eahtoða = Old High German ahtodo (Middle High German ahtode , ahtede , ahte , modern German achte ) representing Old Germanic type ahˈtoþon- , < ahtau , ahtô eight adj. and n. (The Old Saxon ahtodo , Gothic ahtuda represent a type ˈahtođon- , the result of accent-shifting or of analogy; for the Old Frisian and Old Norse forms see eightin adj. A. adj. 1. a. That comes next in order to the seventh. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eight > [adjective] > eighth eightha1000 eightinc1200 a1000 Menologium* (Gr.) 3 Crist wæs..on þy eahteoðan dæg Hælend gehaten. c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 298 Eahtoþe is þæs stanes mægen, þæt, etc. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 81 Þet me sculde in þe ehtuþe dei þet knaue child embsniþen. c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 76 Þe eahtuðe þing. hu muchel is þe mede iþe blisse of heouene. a1300 Signs before Judgm. 113 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 10 Þe eiȝt dai so is dotus and þat ful wel þou salt se. a1300 Cursor Mundi 29310 Þe aght case falles all þa in þat any witchecraft gers bigyn. 138. J. Wyclif Serm. in Sel. Wks. II. 267 Þe eiȝtiþe condicioun. 1477 T. Norton Ordinall of Alchimy vi, in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 100 The vertue of the Eight sphere. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Kings viii. 66 And on the eight daye he let the people go. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 6222 The Eghtid Batell in the burgh [was] Vnder Serces..the souerain of Perce. 1552 Abp. J. Hamilton Catech. Tabil sig. .iii Ye rycht keping of y^e aucht command. 1605 T. Heywood If you know not Me* sig. C^v If it be treason to be the daughter To th'Eight Henry;..I am a traytor. 1615 Bp. J. Hall Recoll. Treat. 814 Let him heare Origen, what hee answers in the eight volume of his explanations of Esay. 1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 62 in Sylva The sixth, eighth or tenth day. 1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1838) V. liii. 266 But the seventh and eighth centuries were a period of discord and darkness. 1887 Gray's Anat. (ed. 11) 667 The eighth or auditory nerve. b. With ellipsis of the noun, to be supplied from context. Also in dates, with ellipsis of day (of the month). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eight > [noun] > that which is eighth eighthOE OE Guthlac B 1037 Ne bið þæs lengra swice sawelgedales þonne seofon niht fyrstgemearces, þæt min feorh heonan on þisse eahteþan ende geseceð. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1810) 473 The eiȝtethe was, that..citacion non nere Thoru bulle of the pope. a1400 Cov. Myst. (1841) 83 The eyted is contempt of veyn glory in us. c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 1010 Þe aȝtþe þe beryl cler & quyt. c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 77 Þe heyt. Crist biddiþ in þe gospel to His vicar, turn þe swerd in to þe scheþ. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Rev. xxi. 20 The ayghte berall. 1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius Cathechisme or Schort Instr. 183 The awght is meiknes quhilk assuages and mitigats al angrie motions of ire. 1642 King Charles I Answer Petition presented at Yorke 18 Apr. 1 Our Message of the eighth of April. 1647 W. Lilly Christian Astrol. xliv. 257 When the Lord of the Ascendant is..in the Antiscion of the Lord of the eighth. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 67 The space of seven continu'd Nights he [sc. Satan] rode With darkness..On the eighth return'd. View more context for this quotation 1861 E. B. Ramsay Reminisc. Sc. Life 2nd Ser. 181 She answered them..‘The tongue no man can tame..James Third and Aucht’, and drank off her glass. 2. eighth part n. one of eight equal parts into which a quantity may be divided. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eight > [noun] > division into eight > an eighth eighth part1523 eighth1557 sub-octave1721 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cxxvii. 154 He had nat the eyght part in nombre of men as the frenche kynge had. ?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) iii. ix. sig. R ij An eight part of the great Pyramis HIK. 1660 tr. H. Blum Bk. Five Collumnes Archit. (new ed.) A. c One eight part of the thicknesse. 3. eighth note n. U.S. = quaver n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > [noun] > quaver quaver1556 demi-crotchet1659 eighth note1889 eighth1956 1889 in Cent. Dict. 1958 R. P. Blesh & H. Janis They all played Ragtime iv. 77 Unaccented eighth notes alternating with accented quarter notes. B. n. 1. a. = eighth part n. at sense A. 2. See A. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eight > [noun] > division into eight > an eighth eighth part1523 eighth1557 sub-octave1721 1557 R. Record Whetstone of Witte sig. Bii^v An eight more. 1747 J. Lind Lett. Navy (1757) i. 23 The commander in chief is to have one half of the eight. 1842 J. C. Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 391 The Muskhoyees from seven eighths of what is termed the Creek Confederacy. b. Military. eighth-wheel, when a body of troops revolves upon its centre or one of its ends to the extent of one-eighth part of a circle. ΚΠ 1796 Instr. & Regulations Cavalry 130 According to the degree ordered, whether half, quarter, or eighth wheel. 1796 Instr. & Regulations Cavalry 144 The eighth wheel is toward the flank which is to be the head of the column..advantage will arise if the eighth wheel is made on the center of each body. 2. †a. Music. = octave v. Obsolete. An interval of seven notes of the diatonic scale. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > interval > [noun] > octave diapasona1398 eighth1597 octave1694 ottava1724 septime1764 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 70 A third, a Fift, a Sixt, and an eight. 1652 News from Lowe Countreys 8 He..Knows Thirds, Fifths, Eights, Rests, Moods, and Time. 1694 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 18 73 He next Observes, that all Progressions by Concords, except by Eighths, produce Discord. 1706 A. Bedford Temple Musick iii. 54 They sang the..Part an Eighth, or Seven Notes higher than the Men. b. The note separated from any given one above or below by an interval of an eighth. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > interval > [noun] > octave > tone one or more octaves apart eighth1609 replicate1730 1609 J. Dowland tr. A. Ornithoparchus Micrologus 15 In b fa ♯ mi, and his eight, you may not sing mi for fa. 1660 J. Playford Brief Introd. Skill Musick (ed. 3) i. 3 Which will be the same, and onely Eights to those above. 1685 R. Boyle Ess. Effects of Motion vii. 88 I made him raise his Voice to an Eighth. c. = eighth note n. at sense A. 3. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > [noun] > quaver quaver1556 demi-crotchet1659 eighth note1889 eighth1956 1956 M. W. Stearns Story of Jazz (1957) xxi. 273 Iturbi produces the feeling that he is playing straight (not dotted) eighths. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < adj.n.OE
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