单词 | seven and thirty |
释义 | > as lemmasseven and thirty b. Forming compound numbers with and and multiples of ten, as in seven and twenty, seven and thirty, etc. Now archaic and in historical contexts.Now usually as the second element of compound numerals, as in twenty-seven, thirty-seven, etc. (also rarely twenty-and-seven, etc.): see the first elements. ΚΠ eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) iii. xi. 82 Seleucus hæfde seofon & seofontig wintra. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 594 Seuene and .xx.ti dais. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xiv. sig. Y3v A young girle of a seuen and twenty yeare old. 1789 D. Collins Acct. Eng. Colony New S. Wales (1804) (ed. 2) iv. 74 A boat belonging to the Sirius caught seven-and-forty of the large fish. 1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous 255 They sat unmurmuring through seven-and-thirty hatchet-made verses describing at fullest length the loss of the schooner Joan Hasken. 2000 K. Hawkins Abduction of Julia i. 10 She was seven-and-twenty years old, far too advanced in age to worry about sitting in a parlor for a pleasant half-hour with a known rake. < as lemmas |
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