seventyadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈsɛvnti/, U.S.

/ˈsɛvən(t)i/

Forms: early Old English seouanti (in prefixed form), early Old English siofantig (in prefixed form), Old English sefuntig (Northumbrian, in prefixed form), Old English seofanti- (in prefixed form, in derivatives), Old English seofantig (in prefixed form), Old English seofantyg (in prefixed form), Old English seofentyg (in prefixed form), Old English seofonti (in prefixed form), Old English seofuntig (chiefly Northumbrian, in prefixed form), Old English sifontig (Northumbrian, in prefixed form), Old English sifuntig (Northumbrian, in prefixed form), Old English siofentig (in prefixed form), Old English siofontig (in prefixed form), Old English syfantig (in prefixed form), Old English syfentig (in prefixed form), Old English syfontig (in prefixed form), Old English (in prefixed form)–early Middle English seofentig, Old English–early Middle English (in prefixed form) seofontig, late Old English siofanti (in prefixed form), late Old English–early Middle English seofenti (in prefixed form), late Old English (in prefixed forms)–early Middle English seouenti (south-west midlands), early Middle English sefentig (in prefixed form), early Middle English sefentiȝe, early Middle English sefontig (in prefixed form), early Middle English seofenntiȝ ( Ormulum), early Middle English seofentiʒ (in prefixed form), early Middle English seofeontig (in prefixed form), early Middle English seoffenntiȝ ( Ormulum), early Middle English souenti (south-western), Middle English cevyntye, Middle English seuenety, Middle English seuentee, Middle English seuenti, Middle English seuinti, Middle English seuynty, Middle English seventi, Middle English sevynty, Middle English seyuenti, Middle English seyuinti, Middle English zeuenty (south-eastern), Middle English–1500s seuynte, Middle English–1600s seuentie, Middle English–1600s seuenty, Middle English–1600s seuentye, Middle English– seventy, late Middle English senty, 1500s seventye, 1500s–1600s seauentie, 1500s–1600s seauenty, 1500s–1600s seaventie, 1500s–1600s seventie, 1600s seaventy, 1600s–1800s sev'nty (poetic), 1900s seb’nty (U.S. regional), 1900s– sebmty (U.S. regional); Scottish pre-1700 seavintie, pre-1700 seuentj, pre-1700 seuintie, pre-1700 seuinty, pre-1700 seventie, pre-1700 sevinte, pre-1700 sevinti, pre-1700 sevintie, pre-1700 sevintj, pre-1700 sevinty, pre-1700 sevyndty, pre-1700 sevynty, pre-1700 sevyntye, pre-1700 sewenti, pre-1700 sewinte, pre-1700 sewinti, pre-1700 sewintie, pre-1700 sewinty, pre-1700 sewynti, pre-1700 sewynty, pre-1700 1700s– seventy, pre-1700 2000s– sivintie, 1700s seaventie, 1700s sinty, 1900s saeventy, 1900s saiventy, 1900s– seeventy, 1900s– seiventie, 1900s– seiventy, 1900s– seivintie, 1900s– seyventy. Also represented by the numerical symbols 70, lxx, LXX, and abbreviations as (formerly) 70ti, lxxti, and variants.

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.

Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian sawentich , sowentich , sauwentich , sauntich (also siguntich , siuguntich , sogentich ) (West Frisian santich , sauntich ), Middle Dutch seventich , soventich (Dutch zeventig ), Old Saxon sivuntig , sibontig , sibuntig (Middle Low German seventich ), Old High German sibunzug , sibinzig (Middle High German sibenzec sibenzic , sivenzich , etc., German siebenzig (now rare), siebzig ), Old Icelandic sjautigr , sjautugr , sjótugr , sjautogr (Icelandic sjötugur ), Norwegian sjautti , Old Swedish siutighi (Swedish sjuttio ), Old Danish sjutigh , sjutjugh , sjutjughe (Danish sytti , syvti , now rare) < the Germanic base of seven adj. + the Germanic base of -ty suffix².Further etymology. The Germanic cognates cited above are further related to Gothic sibuntēhund seventy (with the second element compare hund n. and compare Old English hundseofontig discussed below), and ultimately to the Indo-European base of classical Latin septuāgintā , ancient Greek ἐβδομήκοντα in the same sense (see Septuagint n.), although the phonological details involved are uncertain and disputed. For a recent account see R. D. Fulk Comparative Gram. Early Germanic Languages (2018) 230–2 and see discussion at -ty suffix². Notes on Old English. In Old English the prefixed form hundseofontig is attested more commonly in the same sense (see hund n. 2 and compare quots. OE⁵, OE¹); prefixed forms are still occasionally attested in early Middle English. For examples of the prefixed form in, respectively, senses A., B. 1, B. 2b, B. 2c, and Compounds 1a(b), compare:OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1900) II. 62 He sende þam cyninge.., ænne of ðam hundseofontigum [L. (Rufinus) unum ex septuaginta] þe he geceas to bodigenne.OE Old Eng. Hexateuch: Num. (Claud.) xi. 25 Drihten..nam of ðam gaste ðe wæs on Moyse, & sealde ðam hundseofontigum mannum.OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.i) anno 1018 Þæt gafol..wæs ealles twa & hundseofontig þusend punda.OE Byrhtferð Enchiridion (Ashm.) (1995) i. ii. 32 Tyn siðon seofon beoð hundseofontig.OE Byrhtferð Enchiridion (Ashm.) (1995) iv. ii. 234 Seo feorðe yld þisses middaneardes stod on þrim hund wintrum and þrym and seofon hund [read hundseofontig] wintrum æfter þæra Ebreiscra gesetnysse; æfter þæra hundseofontigra gefadunge, þær wæron twelf ma.Compare also, with the same Germanic prefix, Middle Dutch tseventech (Dutch regional tseventig ), Middle Low German tseventich , and (with different suffixation in the second element) Old Saxon antsibunta , all in the sense ‘seventy’. As with other cardinal numerals, Old English often shows use of uninflected forms (prefixed and unprefixed) with partitive genitive plural of the noun (compare quot. eOE at Compounds 1a(a)). This was originally use as noun (compare later uses with of at sense B. 2), but the construction merges with attributive use as adjective in Middle English.

A cardinal number represented by 70 in arabic numerals, or by lxx, LXX in roman.

A. adj.

Seven times ten; one more than sixty-nine.In quot. eOE with noun in genitive plural; compare discussion in the etymology section.Recorded earliest in combination with other numerals (cf. Compounds 1a(a)).

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seventyeOE

eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) iii. xi. 82 Seleucus hæfde seofon & seofontig wintra, & Lisimachus hæfde þreo & seofontig wintra.

a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3665 Ches ðe nu her seuenti Wise men to stonden ðe bi.

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 1 Blind, and dyaf, and alsuo domb. Of zeuenty yer al uol rond.

c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 634 In foure or in fyfe ȝere he ferre was in lare Þan othire at had bene þare seuynte wynter.

a1677 I. Barrow Brief Expos. Creed (1697) 143 Fitly rendred κύριος by the Seventy interpreters.

1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xi. 159 A Ship..that carried seventy Guns.

1814 W. Wordsworth Excursion ii. 86 The still contentedness of seventy years.

1965 Star Weekly (Toronto) 2 Jan. 37/2 The nearest doctor was 70 miles away over a poor back-country road.

2018 New Yorker 10 Dec. 56/3 He published over seventy volumes, some of them real miracles of book art.

B. n.

1. Seven times ten or one more than sixty-nine as an abstract number; the figures or symbols representing this (70 in arabic numerals; lxx, LXX in roman).

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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [noun] > seventy

seventyc1175

septuagenarian number1715

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 4319 Þe feorþe staff iss nemmnedd O & seofenntiȝ bitacneþþ.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1965) Psalms Prol. l. 25 Þis booc stant in an hundrid & fifty salmys..it stant forsoþe of eiȝtety & seuenty, & eiȝteti al oon signyfieþ þat eiȝte: & seuenti þe same þat seuene.

1651 J. F. tr. H. C. Agrippa Three Bks. Occult Philos. ii. xiii. 224 The number seventy hath also its mysteries, for so many yeers the fire of the sacrifice in the Babylonian Captivity lay under the water, and was alive: so many yeers Jeremiah foretold the destruction of the Temple, [etc.].

1850 Plough, Loom, & Anvil June 809 Divide seventy by the rate of interest per cent., and the quotient is the number of years required. Thus 70 divided by ten will give 7 years.

2010 J. Al-Khalili Pathfinders (2012) vii. 94 In the Bible, the number seventy is written as ‘threescore and ten’.

2011 P. M. Higgins Numbers: Very Short Introd. iii. 31 70 is abundant but none of its factors are perfect. Indeed, 70 is the first so-called weird number.

a. Seventy people or things identified contextually, as parts or divisions of a whole, members of a group, pounds, degrees Fahrenheit, miles per hour, etc. Cf. seventies n.

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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Exod. xxiv. 9 Þe seuenty of aldren..seȝen þe god of yrael, vnder þe fete of hym: as a werk of a saphire stone.

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1869) II. 389 Abimalech..was gouernoure in Sichem iij. yere after his fader, whiche did slee lxx^ti brether to hym.

1645 J. Corbet Hist. Relation Mil. Govt. Gloucester 137 The prisoners taken in the garrison were five hundred and fifty on the list, of whom two Colonells,..with other Officers and Gentlemen reformadoes to the number of seventy.

1818 Times 6 May 2/2 The proposition of Mr. Clay, in the house of Representatives, for acknowledging the independence of the provinces of La Plata, was lost by a majority of seventy.

1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair li. 463 ‘Lend me a hundred, Wenham, for God's sake,’ poor Rawdon said—‘I've got seventy at home.’

1961 R. Gover One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding 146 She passed everything on the road, clipping along at 70 with ease and still with plenty of pedal left.

1975 L. Wertenbaker Perilous Voy. xi. 159 Mrs. Turnley, hunched into her coat in the cavernous station, although it was seventy outside, said fretfully, [etc.].

1993 Dance Internat. Summer 10/3 With a cast of seventy, it is a triumph of grandeur through simplicity.

b. With the and plural agreement. The translators of the Septuagint, the earliest and most influential Greek version of the Hebrew Bible (or Old Testament). Also: †the Septuagint itself (cf. LXX n.) (obsolete).The Septuagint was traditionally thought to have been produced by seventy-two scholars in seventy-two days. The number seventy-two was subsequently rounded to seventy. See etymology at Septuagint n.

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society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > Old Testament > [noun]

the old lawc1000

the Law and the Prophetsc1175

Moses and the Prophetsc1175

Biblea1300

Old and the New Testamenta1300

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Septuagint1566

LXX1604

OT1845

society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > Old Testament > [noun] > translators of

seventya1382

Septuagint1548

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1965) Job Prol. l. 73 Þe seuenti [L. Septuaginta editionem] after grekis & myn after þe ebrues..chese eche man þat he wile.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 245 (MED) Hem I clepe þe Seuenty, and so þey beþ i-cleped in þis book and of meny holy doctoures; and þey beeþ specialliche i-cleped þe Seuenty tourneris, for þey torned Holy Writte out of Ebrew in to Grewe.

1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. i. vii. §8. 110 The Geneua Translation cals it [sc. Gopher] Pinetree, the Rabbine Cedar, the Seuentie square timber.

1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ i. ii. §11. 37 The Seventy render it..τὰ γλυπτὰ, by which they understand graven Images.

1858 Trans. Philol. Soc. 72 The Greek rendering of the Seventy.

2002 M. E. Biddle tr. M. Hengel Septuagint as Christian Script. (2004) ii. 52 The Seventy translated only the Pentateuch and not all the Scriptures.

c. With the and plural agreement. The seventy disciples of Jesus whose mission is described in Luke 10:1.Some early English versions of the Bible, following the Vulgate, give the number of disciples as seventy-two.

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society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Biblical personages > disciple > [noun]

discipleOE

seventyc1535

c1535 M. Nisbet New Test. in Scots (1901) I. Prol. 10 He sendithe the sevinte befoire him to preche.

1686 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. II II. vii. 1035 Matthias, who..was one of the seventy that was Chosen and Ordained by the other Apostles to succeed Judas in the Apostolate.

1914 Washington News Let. Sept. 717/2 He sent out the advance class, the chosen twelve, to exercise their power. In the meantime He was preparing the seventy.

2008 S. Kim Christ & Caesar 133 In his account of the mission of the Seventy.., Luke presents exorcism and healing as deliverance from the kingdom of Satan.

d. Seventy years of age.

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the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [adjective] > specific age

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teenaged1913

thirtyish1925

1590 R. Harvey Theol. Disc. Lamb of God 192 Cannot the beast that hath a mans face bee content, to be a Fox at fiftie and beguile many, but it must be a woolfe and old dogge at seuentie and eightie, and rauin all?

1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 231 He..who at sev'nty odd forsakes this light.

1729 A. Pope Corr. 28 Nov. (1956) III. 80 My first friendship at sixteen, was contracted with a man of seventy.

1831 W. Scott Count Robert vi, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. I. 194 His age was some seventy and upwards.

1884 J. C. Ryle Princ. Churchmen (ed. 2) 424 By the time we are seventy, our memories and intellects begin to fail.

1998 J. Kay Trumpet (1999) 231 Even although Josephine will have just turned seventy, she is still Edith's wee lassie.

2015 Radio Times 3 Jan. (South/West ed.) 138/2 The Belfast-born singer, songwriter and musician is 70 in August.

3. The seventieth of a set or series with numbered members, the one designated seventy. Usually as number seventy, or with specification, as chapter seventy, verse seventy, etc.

ΚΠ

1578 W. Gace tr. M. Luther Special & Chosen Serm. iv. 53 Verse 70. As he spake by the mouth of his holy Prophets: which haue bene since the world began.

1729 Monthly Chron. Jan. 24/2 The Monthly Catalogue, N^o 70. Printed for J. Wilford. Price 3 d.

1877 Richmond & Louisville Med. Jrnl. July 93 He was admitted November 14th, worked in room 71 third floor, slept in room 70 on the same floor.

1935 Left Rev. Mar. 207 The lady in seventy-two asks in anxious tones what has happened, the gentleman in seventy opposite declares it's an infernal nuisance.

1936 P. Colson What if they do Mind? viii. 117 Miss Smith-Jones..who lives at number seventy with her younger sister.

2010 A. J. Freemont in H. M. Fillit et al. Brocklehurst's Textbk. Geriatric Med. & Gerontology (ed. 7) lxxi. 578/2 By far the most common symptomatic disorder of cartilage in the elderly is osteoarthritis, which is covered in Chapter 70.

†4. As a count noun. A group of seventy people or things; a period of seventy years. Obsolete.

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the world > time > period > year > [noun] > period of specific number of years

hendecadOE

a week of yearsa1382

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threescore (years) and tena1616

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aeon1960

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [noun] > seventy > group or set of seventy

Septuagint1564

seventy1741

1590 H. Broughton (title) A letter to a friende, tovching Mardochai his age, which helpeth much to holde the trueth, for that chiefe prophecie of our saluation, in Gabriels seuenties.

1741 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Duke of Buccleuch (1899) I. 398 in Parl. Papers (C. 9244) XLVI. 1 Many companies that were seventy's when we embarked, have not six men left in them.

1839 Chartist 2 Mar. 4/3 The working men came in sixties and seventies, and dragged away the men as soon as they landed from the packets.

1904 Oamaru (N.Z.) Mail 17 Feb. We also visited every business and private house, and all the shipping, our host being divided into seventies with a leader, and the seventies into tens with a leader.

5. With the and plural agreement, and frequently with capital initial: a body of officers in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons), originally consisting of elders with missionary duties. As a count noun: a governing body consisting of up to seventy such elders (also called quorum of (the) seventy, council of (the) seventy); a member of such a body.The role and function of the Seventy within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has changed considerably over time. Today the Seventy are a governing body below the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.The number seventy was adopted on account of the seventy disciples of Jesus whose mission is described in Luke 10:1 (see sense B. 2c).

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seventy1835

1835 Minutes 28 Feb. in F. C. Collier & W. S. Harwell Kirtland Council Minute Bk. (Church of Latter-day Saints) (2002) 87 The following are some of the names and ordination blessings of the Seventy who were called and to be sent forth.

1876 Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah Territory) 30 Aug. 495/3 Joseph was told to organize quorums of seventy, and he did it.

1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 828/2 There are eighty seventies in Utah.

1892 A. C. Gunter Miss Dividends 106 A Mormon empire..ruled over by the Priesthood of the faith of Joseph Smith and the Council of Seventies.

1955 Improvem. Era Apr. 267/2 As a ward member, a seventy should respond willingly to all calls made upon him by his bishop.

1993 Ensign Mar. 41/2 (caption) The council room of the Presidency of the Seventy.

2012 New Yorker 14 May 93/2 Christensen was then one of the Seventy—he was responsible, along with a few others, for the Mormon church in the northeast quadrant of North America.

2014 @Brandt_Anderson 4 Dec. in twitter.com (accessed 30 July 2020) Question for BYU fans. Does the head football coach have to be LDS [= Latter-day Saint]? I know he has to be interviewed by a seventy.

Compounds

C1.

(a) In combination with the numerals one to nine, to express numbers between seventy and eighty; formerly as one and seventy (also seventy and one), etc., now usually seventy-one, etc. Also forming compound numbers with multiples of one hundred, as one hundred and seventy, (also one hundred seventy: now U.S.), etc.See Compounds 3 and seventy-four n. for specific uses.

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eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) iii. xi. 82 Seleucus hæfde seofon & seofontig wintra, & Lisimachus hæfde þreo & seofontig wintra.

c1175 (?OE) Royal Charter: Æðelred II to Christ Church, Canterbury (Sawyer 1636) in N. P. Brooks & S. E. Kelly Charters of Christ Church Canterbury, Pt. 2 (2013) 982 Ðeos landboc wes gewriten on þan neogan undred geare & neogan & seofentig fram ures lauordes helendes Cristes akennednesse.

a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 26 Seouene & seouenti lefdies.

c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 7672 In þe ȝer of grace a þousend & seuenti & þre.

c1480 (a1400) Prol. 139 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 5 And disciplis ȝet had he may, forowtin þir, sewinty and twa.

1562 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 17 His Apostolis and seuinty-twa Discipulis.

1615 W. Bedwell tr. Mohammedis Imposturæ iii. §109 You shal be separated farre off from me vnto the seuenty three generation.

1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. l. 218 Seventy-two Houris..of resplendent beauty.

1862 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 2nd Ser. i. ii. 38 Wal, by heaven, Thet's the wust news I've heerd sence Seventy-seven!

1885 Ld. Tennyson To E. FitzGerald 43, 44 And I am nearing seventy-four, While you have touch'd at seventy-five.

1920 Normal Instructor & Primary Plan Jan. 26/1 The first one hundred-seventy-five lines are the finest in the poem.

2015 New Yorker 26 Jan. 22/1 A slight man of seventy-one with a gimlet gaze behind rimless glasses.

(b) Combining with other numbers to form nouns and adjectives denoting multiples of seventy, as seventy thousand, seventy million, etc.

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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 370) (1850) 2 Chron. ii. 2 And he noumbrede seuenty thousand of men berynge in schulderis.

1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 232 Three hundred thousand horse, and seventy thousand good musquetoons.

1898 Congregationalist (Boston, Mass.) 28 Apr. 616/2 The arts of diplomacy are too soon exhausted when seventy million people are the on-lookers and on-pushers.

1989 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 21 Dec. 16/3 Monday evening demonstrations..grew week by week, from a guesstimated seventy thousand, to double that.

2012 N. N. Taleb Antifragile v. xviii. 280 The Parisian bank Societé Générale rushed to sell..close to seventy billion dollars' worth of stocks.

(c) In combination with the ordinals first to ninth to form a compound ordinal number, as seventy-first, seventy-second, etc.

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1605 E. Askew Brotherly Reconcilem. 133 And when thou art wrathfull and raging toward thy enemie, Athanasius aduiseth to reade often the seuentie first Psalme as a medicine for thy disease.

1791 J. Townsend Journey Spain (1792) III. 266 On the seventy-first day.

1873 All Year Round 3 May 13/2 In 1791, the Seventy-third, now the Seventy-first, that had won a name in Indian warfare, again took a foremost part against..Tippoo.

2015 Radio Times 25 July (South/West ed.) 58/3 A Spitfire fly-by to mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain.

b. Combined with singular nouns to form adjectives with the sense ‘of, involving, or consisting of seventy of the specified thing’, as in seventy-degree, seventy-mile, etc.

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1748 Petition of Creditors to Incorporation of Taylors in Canongate 3 At the Time of the Delivery of the said seventy Pound Bill, he paid no Money.

1845 Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 705/1 The propelling powers are two seventy-horse steam-engines.

1893 K. Sanborn Truthful Woman S. Calif. 50 From San Diego to Los Angeles, a seventy-mile run along the coast.

1957 Times 30 Aug. 8/6 A runaway 70-ton Army transporter..careered downhill into the village of Carlton.

1996 D. Rushkoff Playing Future ii. 73 In the first extensive seventy-episode series, Earth has already built a vast number of space colonies on the Lagrange points of our planet.

2003 G. Shteyngart Russ. Debutante's Handbk. iv. xx. 200 The women were dressed for seventy-degree weather in engineer boots, corduroys, and T-shirts of various gloomy hues.

C2.

70-year-old n. and adj. (a) adj. that is seventy years of age; (b) n. a person of seventy years of age.

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the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [adjective] > specific age

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the world > people > person > person of specific age > [noun]

one-year-old?1609

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seventeen-year-old1858

70-year-old1870

twenty-firster1912

1832 Court Mag. & Belle Assemblée Aug. 101/1 A fault of which this seventy-year-old Irishman is frequently guilty.

1870 New Castle (Indiana) Courier 5 Aug. There is much in every number to amuse and instruct the sixty-year olds and seventy-year olds.

1966 V. Nabokov Speak, Memory (U.S. rev. ed.) vii. 143 I see shining the same, the very same, locks of that now seventy-year-old valise.

2001 J. Le Fanu They don't know what's Wrong xiv. 220 My 70-year-old father-in-law has been afflicted by feelings of pins and needles all over the body.

2002 Times 22 May ii. 23/2 Most 70-year-olds I know are still pin-sharp and agile enough to thrash people half their age on the tennis court.

C3. Specific uses of compound numbers between seventy and eighty (see Compounds 1a(a)). See also seventy-four n.

78 n. (also seventy-eight) a record designed to be played at a speed of 78 rpm; also as a modifier in 78 record.78 rpm was the standard speed for records until the introduction of 33⅓ rpm long-playing microgroove records in 1948.

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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > a sound recording > [noun] > record or disc > type of record

pre-release1871

record album1904

re-release1907

ten-inch1908

twelve-incher1909

demonstration record1911

pressing1912

swinger1924

repressing1927

transcription1931

long-player1932

rush release1935

pop record1937

album1945

demonstration disc1947

pop disc1947

pop single1947

long-play1948

picture disc1948

781949

single1949

forty-five1950

demo disc1952

EP1952

shellac1954

top of the pops1956

gold disc1957

acetate1962

platinum disc1964

chartbuster1965

miss1965

cover1966

reissue1966

pirate label1968

rock record1968

thirty-three (and a third)1968

sampler1969

white-label1970

double album1971

dubplate1976

seven-inch1977

mini-album1980

joint1991

1949 Billboard 8 Jan. 17/1 Since almost all inventory of dealers is in 78, with the dealers enjoying greater return privileges for 78's, as well as sharing greater profits in 78 sales, Krantz said that it was to the best advantage of the dealer to promote 78's.

1967 ‘R. Petrie’ Foreign Bodies xi. 156 Stina looked out her two old seventy-eight records and the four tunes on them sounded through the villa all day.

2007 N. Rosen How to live Off-grid i. 6 There's even a wind-up record player and a stack of old 78s.

seventy-five n. (also 75) †(a) Archery a bow with a draw weight of 75 lbs (obsolete); (b) a 75 mm calibre field gun characterized by a hydro-pneumatic recoil mechanism that allows rapid firing, developed by the French military in the late 19th cent.; (also) any of various similar guns derived from this; = French 75 n. (a) at French adj. and n. Compounds 1b; now chiefly historical.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > archer's weapons > [noun] > bow > types of bow

tax1541

livery bow?a1549

bow of lath1597

yew1605

slug1614

seventy-five1840

self1856

three-wood1875

recurve1961

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > rifle > types of

three-o(h)-three1683

air rifle1801

yager1817

big bore1838

seventy-five1840

telescopic rifle1850

Minié rifle1851

needle rifle1856

pea rifle1856

Lancaster1857

six-shooting1858

Whitworth1858

Henry1861

polygroove1863

telescopic-sighted rifle1863

spencer1866

magazine rifle1867

Snider rifle1868

chassepot1869

Martini–Henry rifle1869

Winchester1871

Mauser rifle1872

Martini1876

saloon rifle1881

express1884

express rifle1884

Mannlicher1884

Mauser1887

Lee-Enfield1888

Flobert1890

pump gun1890

take-down1895

two-two1895

Ross rifle1901

hammer-rifle1907

sporter1907

French 751914

twenty-two1925

machine-gun rifle1941

assault rifle1950

assault weapon1968

kalashnikov1970

assault rifle1975

1840 G. A. Hansard Bk. Archery ix. 368 A seventy-five, which commands all lengths within four hundred yards.

1914 Manch. Courier 28 Sept. 5/6 The position had been strongly fortified by the enemy, and a ten days' bombardment by the famous Seventy-fives of the French artillery had failed to dislodge him.

1917 A. C. Kimber Let. 17 June in P. Gregory & E. Nurser American on Western Front (2016) (e-book ed.) xv The enemy began firing shrapnel from 75s at us, but of course it all flew wild.

1929 Ye Sylvan Archer Mar. 4/2 Our archers work up from the use of thirty and forty pound bows to the deadly 65s, 75s and 80s.

1969 A. Horne To lose Battle xxi. 510 Amongst the guns taken were some 7,000 French ‘75s’ of First War vintage.

2017 J. LaMonica Amer. Tactical Advancem. World War I i. 16 Light artillery was comprised of French Schneider M1897 seventy-five-millimeter cannon. The seventy-five's high rate of fire made it ideal for conducting creeping barrages.

73 n. (also seventy-three) U.S. used by telegraph and (now chiefly) radio operators to indicate any of various expressions of goodwill; ‘best wishes’, ‘goodbye’; also in plural in same sense.

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1855 Shaffner's Telegr. Compan. Oct. 399 73. Best respects.

1867 Telegrapher 7 Sept. 14/3 This popular ignorance is as pitiable as it is absurd. 73. O.P. Erator. York, Pa., August 10, 1867.

1901 Washington Post 13 Oct. 35/3 As he prepared to shut off she caught the signal ‘73’, and pricked up her ears. ‘What was that “73” for?’ she asked... ‘Seventy-three,’ he replied, ‘is the universal greeting. It means pretty nearly everything from “have a drink” to an elaborate expression of good will.’

1918 Railroad Telegrapher Apr. 548/2 Bro. Thomas Donahue..sends his ‘73s’ to all his old pals, and would be glad to hear from them.

1976 S9 (N.Y.) May–June 31/2 Seventy-threes, and 'bye.

1993 Press Assoc. Newswire (Nexis) 19 Aug. An 84-year-old US Coast Guard search-and-rescue tradition has ended with a final Morse code ‘73’ sent by a radio operator in Marshfield, Massachusetts.

† seventy-twos n. (also 72s) Obsolete a very small size of paper produced by cutting and folding a printing sheet to form 72 leaves (144 pages); a page of this size, or a book composed of such pages; = seventy-twomo n.

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1755 J. Smith Printer's Gram. x. 255 A Half-sheet of Seventy-two's, with Three Signatures.

1865 Printer May 59/1 The form of 72s.

1894 Amer. Dict. Printing & Bookmaking 277/2 Sixty-fours, seventy-twos, eighties and ninety-sixes are also rather curiosities than anything else, their use being rare and mostly confined to cases where an extra four, eight, or sixteen pages are left over at the end of a book.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	seventy
释义	seventyadj.n. Brit. /ˈsɛvnti/, U.S. /ˈsɛvən(t)i/ Forms: early Old English seouanti (in prefixed form), early Old English siofantig (in prefixed form), Old English sefuntig (Northumbrian, in prefixed form), Old English seofanti- (in prefixed form, in derivatives), Old English seofantig (in prefixed form), Old English seofantyg (in prefixed form), Old English seofentyg (in prefixed form), Old English seofonti (in prefixed form), Old English seofuntig (chiefly Northumbrian, in prefixed form), Old English sifontig (Northumbrian, in prefixed form), Old English sifuntig (Northumbrian, in prefixed form), Old English siofentig (in prefixed form), Old English siofontig (in prefixed form), Old English syfantig (in prefixed form), Old English syfentig (in prefixed form), Old English syfontig (in prefixed form), Old English (in prefixed form)–early Middle English seofentig, Old English–early Middle English (in prefixed form) seofontig, late Old English siofanti (in prefixed form), late Old English–early Middle English seofenti (in prefixed form), late Old English (in prefixed forms)–early Middle English seouenti (south-west midlands), early Middle English sefentig (in prefixed form), early Middle English sefentiȝe, early Middle English sefontig (in prefixed form), early Middle English seofenntiȝ ( Ormulum), early Middle English seofentiʒ (in prefixed form), early Middle English seofeontig (in prefixed form), early Middle English seoffenntiȝ ( Ormulum), early Middle English souenti (south-western), Middle English cevyntye, Middle English seuenety, Middle English seuentee, Middle English seuenti, Middle English seuinti, Middle English seuynty, Middle English seventi, Middle English sevynty, Middle English seyuenti, Middle English seyuinti, Middle English zeuenty (south-eastern), Middle English–1500s seuynte, Middle English–1600s seuentie, Middle English–1600s seuenty, Middle English–1600s seuentye, Middle English– seventy, late Middle English senty, 1500s seventye, 1500s–1600s seauentie, 1500s–1600s seauenty, 1500s–1600s seaventie, 1500s–1600s seventie, 1600s seaventy, 1600s–1800s sev'nty (poetic), 1900s seb’nty (U.S. regional), 1900s– sebmty (U.S. regional); Scottish pre-1700 seavintie, pre-1700 seuentj, pre-1700 seuintie, pre-1700 seuinty, pre-1700 seventie, pre-1700 sevinte, pre-1700 sevinti, pre-1700 sevintie, pre-1700 sevintj, pre-1700 sevinty, pre-1700 sevyndty, pre-1700 sevynty, pre-1700 sevyntye, pre-1700 sewenti, pre-1700 sewinte, pre-1700 sewinti, pre-1700 sewintie, pre-1700 sewinty, pre-1700 sewynti, pre-1700 sewynty, pre-1700 1700s– seventy, pre-1700 2000s– sivintie, 1700s seaventie, 1700s sinty, 1900s saeventy, 1900s saiventy, 1900s– seeventy, 1900s– seiventie, 1900s– seiventy, 1900s– seivintie, 1900s– seyventy. Also represented by the numerical symbols 70, lxx, LXX, and abbreviations as (formerly) 70ti, lxxti, and variants. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian sawentich , sowentich , sauwentich , sauntich (also siguntich , siuguntich , sogentich ) (West Frisian santich , sauntich ), Middle Dutch seventich , soventich (Dutch zeventig ), Old Saxon sivuntig , sibontig , sibuntig (Middle Low German seventich ), Old High German sibunzug , sibinzig (Middle High German sibenzec sibenzic , sivenzich , etc., German siebenzig (now rare), siebzig ), Old Icelandic sjautigr , sjautugr , sjótugr , sjautogr (Icelandic sjötugur ), Norwegian sjautti , Old Swedish siutighi (Swedish sjuttio ), Old Danish sjutigh , sjutjugh , sjutjughe (Danish sytti , syvti , now rare) < the Germanic base of seven adj. + the Germanic base of -ty suffix².Further etymology. The Germanic cognates cited above are further related to Gothic sibuntēhund seventy (with the second element compare hund n. and compare Old English hundseofontig discussed below), and ultimately to the Indo-European base of classical Latin septuāgintā , ancient Greek ἐβδομήκοντα in the same sense (see Septuagint n.), although the phonological details involved are uncertain and disputed. For a recent account see R. D. Fulk Comparative Gram. Early Germanic Languages (2018) 230–2 and see discussion at -ty suffix². Notes on Old English. In Old English the prefixed form hundseofontig is attested more commonly in the same sense (see hund n. 2 and compare quots. OE⁵, OE¹); prefixed forms are still occasionally attested in early Middle English. For examples of the prefixed form in, respectively, senses A., B. 1, B. 2b, B. 2c, and Compounds 1a(b), compare:OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1900) II. 62 He sende þam cyninge.., ænne of ðam hundseofontigum [L. (Rufinus) unum ex septuaginta] þe he geceas to bodigenne.OE Old Eng. Hexateuch: Num. (Claud.) xi. 25 Drihten..nam of ðam gaste ðe wæs on Moyse, & sealde ðam hundseofontigum mannum.OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.i) anno 1018 Þæt gafol..wæs ealles twa & hundseofontig þusend punda.OE Byrhtferð Enchiridion (Ashm.) (1995) i. ii. 32 Tyn siðon seofon beoð hundseofontig.OE Byrhtferð Enchiridion (Ashm.) (1995) iv. ii. 234 Seo feorðe yld þisses middaneardes stod on þrim hund wintrum and þrym and seofon hund [read hundseofontig] wintrum æfter þæra Ebreiscra gesetnysse; æfter þæra hundseofontigra gefadunge, þær wæron twelf ma.Compare also, with the same Germanic prefix, Middle Dutch tseventech (Dutch regional tseventig ), Middle Low German tseventich , and (with different suffixation in the second element) Old Saxon antsibunta , all in the sense ‘seventy’. As with other cardinal numerals, Old English often shows use of uninflected forms (prefixed and unprefixed) with partitive genitive plural of the noun (compare quot. eOE at Compounds 1a(a)). This was originally use as noun (compare later uses with of at sense B. 2), but the construction merges with attributive use as adjective in Middle English. A cardinal number represented by 70 in arabic numerals, or by lxx, LXX in roman. A. adj. Seven times ten; one more than sixty-nine.In quot. eOE with noun in genitive plural; compare discussion in the etymology section.Recorded earliest in combination with other numerals (cf. Compounds 1a(a)). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [adjective] > seventy seventyeOE eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) iii. xi. 82 Seleucus hæfde seofon & seofontig wintra, & Lisimachus hæfde þreo & seofontig wintra. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3665 Ches ðe nu her seuenti Wise men to stonden ðe bi. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 1 Blind, and dyaf, and alsuo domb. Of zeuenty yer al uol rond. c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 634 In foure or in fyfe ȝere he ferre was in lare Þan othire at had bene þare seuynte wynter. a1677 I. Barrow Brief Expos. Creed (1697) 143 Fitly rendred κύριος by the Seventy interpreters. 1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xi. 159 A Ship..that carried seventy Guns. 1814 W. Wordsworth Excursion ii. 86 The still contentedness of seventy years. View more context for this quotation 1965 Star Weekly (Toronto) 2 Jan. 37/2 The nearest doctor was 70 miles away over a poor back-country road. 2018 New Yorker 10 Dec. 56/3 He published over seventy volumes, some of them real miracles of book art. B. n. 1. Seven times ten or one more than sixty-nine as an abstract number; the figures or symbols representing this (70 in arabic numerals; lxx, LXX in roman). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [noun] > seventy seventyc1175 septuagenarian number1715 c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 4319 Þe feorþe staff iss nemmnedd O & seofenntiȝ bitacneþþ. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1965) Psalms Prol. l. 25 Þis booc stant in an hundrid & fifty salmys..it stant forsoþe of eiȝtety & seuenty, & eiȝteti al oon signyfieþ þat eiȝte: & seuenti þe same þat seuene. 1651 J. F. tr. H. C. Agrippa Three Bks. Occult Philos. ii. xiii. 224 The number seventy hath also its mysteries, for so many yeers the fire of the sacrifice in the Babylonian Captivity lay under the water, and was alive: so many yeers Jeremiah foretold the destruction of the Temple, [etc.]. 1850 Plough, Loom, & Anvil June 809 Divide seventy by the rate of interest per cent., and the quotient is the number of years required. Thus 70 divided by ten will give 7 years. 2010 J. Al-Khalili Pathfinders (2012) vii. 94 In the Bible, the number seventy is written as ‘threescore and ten’. 2011 P. M. Higgins Numbers: Very Short Introd. iii. 31 70 is abundant but none of its factors are perfect. Indeed, 70 is the first so-called weird number. 2. a. Seventy people or things identified contextually, as parts or divisions of a whole, members of a group, pounds, degrees Fahrenheit, miles per hour, etc. Cf. seventies n. ΚΠ a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Exod. xxiv. 9 Þe seuenty of aldren..seȝen þe god of yrael, vnder þe fete of hym: as a werk of a saphire stone. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1869) II. 389 Abimalech..was gouernoure in Sichem iij. yere after his fader, whiche did slee lxx^ti brether to hym. 1645 J. Corbet Hist. Relation Mil. Govt. Gloucester 137 The prisoners taken in the garrison were five hundred and fifty on the list, of whom two Colonells,..with other Officers and Gentlemen reformadoes to the number of seventy. 1818 Times 6 May 2/2 The proposition of Mr. Clay, in the house of Representatives, for acknowledging the independence of the provinces of La Plata, was lost by a majority of seventy. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair li. 463 ‘Lend me a hundred, Wenham, for God's sake,’ poor Rawdon said—‘I've got seventy at home.’ 1961 R. Gover One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding 146 She passed everything on the road, clipping along at 70 with ease and still with plenty of pedal left. 1975 L. Wertenbaker Perilous Voy. xi. 159 Mrs. Turnley, hunched into her coat in the cavernous station, although it was seventy outside, said fretfully, [etc.]. 1993 Dance Internat. Summer 10/3 With a cast of seventy, it is a triumph of grandeur through simplicity. b. With the and plural agreement. The translators of the Septuagint, the earliest and most influential Greek version of the Hebrew Bible (or Old Testament). Also: †the Septuagint itself (cf. LXX n.) (obsolete).The Septuagint was traditionally thought to have been produced by seventy-two scholars in seventy-two days. The number seventy-two was subsequently rounded to seventy. See etymology at Septuagint n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > Old Testament > [noun] the old lawc1000 the Law and the Prophetsc1175 Moses and the Prophetsc1175 Biblea1300 Old and the New Testamenta1300 seventya1382 Old Testamenta1387 Septuagint1566 LXX1604 OT1845 society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > Old Testament > [noun] > translators of seventya1382 Septuagint1548 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1965) Job Prol. l. 73 Þe seuenti [L. Septuaginta editionem] after grekis & myn after þe ebrues..chese eche man þat he wile. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 245 (MED) Hem I clepe þe Seuenty, and so þey beþ i-cleped in þis book and of meny holy doctoures; and þey beeþ specialliche i-cleped þe Seuenty tourneris, for þey torned Holy Writte out of Ebrew in to Grewe. 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. i. vii. §8. 110 The Geneua Translation cals it [sc. Gopher] Pinetree, the Rabbine Cedar, the Seuentie square timber. 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ i. ii. §11. 37 The Seventy render it..τὰ γλυπτὰ, by which they understand graven Images. 1858 Trans. Philol. Soc. 72 The Greek rendering of the Seventy. 2002 M. E. Biddle tr. M. Hengel Septuagint as Christian Script. (2004) ii. 52 The Seventy translated only the Pentateuch and not all the Scriptures. c. With the and plural agreement. The seventy disciples of Jesus whose mission is described in Luke 10:1.Some early English versions of the Bible, following the Vulgate, give the number of disciples as seventy-two. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Biblical personages > disciple > [noun] discipleOE seventyc1535 c1535 M. Nisbet New Test. in Scots (1901) I. Prol. 10 He sendithe the sevinte befoire him to preche. 1686 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. II II. vii. 1035 Matthias, who..was one of the seventy that was Chosen and Ordained by the other Apostles to succeed Judas in the Apostolate. 1914 Washington News Let. Sept. 717/2 He sent out the advance class, the chosen twelve, to exercise their power. In the meantime He was preparing the seventy. 2008 S. Kim Christ & Caesar 133 In his account of the mission of the Seventy.., Luke presents exorcism and healing as deliverance from the kingdom of Satan. d. Seventy years of age. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [adjective] > specific age seven?1440 yearing1451 year-old1556 yeared1583 seventy1590 two-year1596 quinquagenarian1603 septuagenary1605 twelvea1616 thirty1618 three-yearling1621 one-eared1645 quadragenarious1656 trimenstruous1656 septennian1662 sexagenarian1663 sexagenary1663 octogenarya1696 seven-year-old1713 quinquagenary1715 yearling1729 septuagesimal1781 septuagenarian1793 octogenarian1818 fortyish1821 seventeen-year-old1821 three-year-old1825 week-old1826 centenarian1828 day-old1831 70-year-old1832 quadragenarian1834 century-old1836 nonagenarian1877 teenaged1913 thirtyish1925 1590 R. Harvey Theol. Disc. Lamb of God 192 Cannot the beast that hath a mans face bee content, to be a Fox at fiftie and beguile many, but it must be a woolfe and old dogge at seuentie and eightie, and rauin all? 1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 231 He..who at sev'nty odd forsakes this light. 1729 A. Pope Corr. 28 Nov. (1956) III. 80 My first friendship at sixteen, was contracted with a man of seventy. 1831 W. Scott Count Robert vi, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. I. 194 His age was some seventy and upwards. 1884 J. C. Ryle Princ. Churchmen (ed. 2) 424 By the time we are seventy, our memories and intellects begin to fail. 1998 J. Kay Trumpet (1999) 231 Even although Josephine will have just turned seventy, she is still Edith's wee lassie. 2015 Radio Times 3 Jan. (South/West ed.) 138/2 The Belfast-born singer, songwriter and musician is 70 in August. 3. The seventieth of a set or series with numbered members, the one designated seventy. Usually as number seventy, or with specification, as chapter seventy, verse seventy, etc. ΚΠ 1578 W. Gace tr. M. Luther Special & Chosen Serm. iv. 53 Verse 70. As he spake by the mouth of his holy Prophets: which haue bene since the world began. 1729 Monthly Chron. Jan. 24/2 The Monthly Catalogue, N^o 70. Printed for J. Wilford. Price 3 d. 1877 Richmond & Louisville Med. Jrnl. July 93 He was admitted November 14th, worked in room 71 third floor, slept in room 70 on the same floor. 1935 Left Rev. Mar. 207 The lady in seventy-two asks in anxious tones what has happened, the gentleman in seventy opposite declares it's an infernal nuisance. 1936 P. Colson What if they do Mind? viii. 117 Miss Smith-Jones..who lives at number seventy with her younger sister. 2010 A. J. Freemont in H. M. Fillit et al. Brocklehurst's Textbk. Geriatric Med. & Gerontology (ed. 7) lxxi. 578/2 By far the most common symptomatic disorder of cartilage in the elderly is osteoarthritis, which is covered in Chapter 70. †4. As a count noun. A group of seventy people or things; a period of seventy years. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > [noun] > period of specific number of years hendecadOE a week of yearsa1382 weekc1384 Olympiada1387 lustre1387 yearc1425 millenary1551 prenticeship1553 septenary1576 lustrum1590 quinquennal1590 seventy1590 septimane1603 quinquennie1606 threescore (years) and tena1616 duodecad1621 quinquennium1621 jubilee1643 quadrenniala1646 chiliad1653 septennary1659 septennium1660 triennial1661 millennium1664 tetraëterid1678 octennial1679 duodenary1681 quadrennium1779 septenniad1836 quinquenniad1842 milliad1843 tricentenary1846 triennium1847 vicennium1847 bimillenary1850 lustration1853 sexennium1858 septennate1874 quinquennial1877 pentad1880 sexennate1898 aeon1960 the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [noun] > seventy > group or set of seventy Septuagint1564 seventy1741 1590 H. Broughton (title) A letter to a friende, tovching Mardochai his age, which helpeth much to holde the trueth, for that chiefe prophecie of our saluation, in Gabriels seuenties. 1741 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Duke of Buccleuch (1899) I. 398 in Parl. Papers (C. 9244) XLVI. 1 Many companies that were seventy's when we embarked, have not six men left in them. 1839 Chartist 2 Mar. 4/3 The working men came in sixties and seventies, and dragged away the men as soon as they landed from the packets. 1904 Oamaru (N.Z.) Mail 17 Feb. We also visited every business and private house, and all the shipping, our host being divided into seventies with a leader, and the seventies into tens with a leader. 5. With the and plural agreement, and frequently with capital initial: a body of officers in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons), originally consisting of elders with missionary duties. As a count noun: a governing body consisting of up to seventy such elders (also called quorum of (the) seventy, council of (the) seventy); a member of such a body.The role and function of the Seventy within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has changed considerably over time. Today the Seventy are a governing body below the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.The number seventy was adopted on account of the seventy disciples of Jesus whose mission is described in Luke 10:1 (see sense B. 2c). ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > laity > lay functionaries > elder > [noun] > collectively > Mormon seventy1835 1835 Minutes 28 Feb. in F. C. Collier & W. S. Harwell Kirtland Council Minute Bk. (Church of Latter-day Saints) (2002) 87 The following are some of the names and ordination blessings of the Seventy who were called and to be sent forth. 1876 Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah Territory) 30 Aug. 495/3 Joseph was told to organize quorums of seventy, and he did it. 1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 828/2 There are eighty seventies in Utah. 1892 A. C. Gunter Miss Dividends 106 A Mormon empire..ruled over by the Priesthood of the faith of Joseph Smith and the Council of Seventies. 1955 Improvem. Era Apr. 267/2 As a ward member, a seventy should respond willingly to all calls made upon him by his bishop. 1993 Ensign Mar. 41/2 (caption) The council room of the Presidency of the Seventy. 2012 New Yorker 14 May 93/2 Christensen was then one of the Seventy—he was responsible, along with a few others, for the Mormon church in the northeast quadrant of North America. 2014 @Brandt_Anderson 4 Dec. in twitter.com (accessed 30 July 2020) Question for BYU fans. Does the head football coach have to be LDS [= Latter-day Saint]? I know he has to be interviewed by a seventy. Compounds C1. a. (a) In combination with the numerals one to nine, to express numbers between seventy and eighty; formerly as one and seventy (also seventy and one), etc., now usually seventy-one, etc. Also forming compound numbers with multiples of one hundred, as one hundred and seventy, (also one hundred seventy: now U.S.), etc.See Compounds 3 and seventy-four n. for specific uses. ΚΠ eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) iii. xi. 82 Seleucus hæfde seofon & seofontig wintra, & Lisimachus hæfde þreo & seofontig wintra. c1175 (?OE) Royal Charter: Æðelred II to Christ Church, Canterbury (Sawyer 1636) in N. P. Brooks & S. E. Kelly Charters of Christ Church Canterbury, Pt. 2 (2013) 982 Ðeos landboc wes gewriten on þan neogan undred geare & neogan & seofentig fram ures lauordes helendes Cristes akennednesse. a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 26 Seouene & seouenti lefdies. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 7672 In þe ȝer of grace a þousend & seuenti & þre. c1480 (a1400) Prol. 139 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 5 And disciplis ȝet had he may, forowtin þir, sewinty and twa. 1562 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 17 His Apostolis and seuinty-twa Discipulis. 1615 W. Bedwell tr. Mohammedis Imposturæ iii. §109 You shal be separated farre off from me vnto the seuenty three generation. 1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. l. 218 Seventy-two Houris..of resplendent beauty. 1862 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 2nd Ser. i. ii. 38 Wal, by heaven, Thet's the wust news I've heerd sence Seventy-seven! 1885 Ld. Tennyson To E. FitzGerald 43, 44 And I am nearing seventy-four, While you have touch'd at seventy-five. 1920 Normal Instructor & Primary Plan Jan. 26/1 The first one hundred-seventy-five lines are the finest in the poem. 2015 New Yorker 26 Jan. 22/1 A slight man of seventy-one with a gimlet gaze behind rimless glasses. (b) Combining with other numbers to form nouns and adjectives denoting multiples of seventy, as seventy thousand, seventy million, etc. ΚΠ a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 370) (1850) 2 Chron. ii. 2 And he noumbrede seuenty thousand of men berynge in schulderis. 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 232 Three hundred thousand horse, and seventy thousand good musquetoons. 1898 Congregationalist (Boston, Mass.) 28 Apr. 616/2 The arts of diplomacy are too soon exhausted when seventy million people are the on-lookers and on-pushers. 1989 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 21 Dec. 16/3 Monday evening demonstrations..grew week by week, from a guesstimated seventy thousand, to double that. 2012 N. N. Taleb Antifragile v. xviii. 280 The Parisian bank Societé Générale rushed to sell..close to seventy billion dollars' worth of stocks. (c) In combination with the ordinals first to ninth to form a compound ordinal number, as seventy-first, seventy-second, etc. ΚΠ 1605 E. Askew Brotherly Reconcilem. 133 And when thou art wrathfull and raging toward thy enemie, Athanasius aduiseth to reade often the seuentie first Psalme as a medicine for thy disease. 1791 J. Townsend Journey Spain (1792) III. 266 On the seventy-first day. 1873 All Year Round 3 May 13/2 In 1791, the Seventy-third, now the Seventy-first, that had won a name in Indian warfare, again took a foremost part against..Tippoo. 2015 Radio Times 25 July (South/West ed.) 58/3 A Spitfire fly-by to mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. b. Combined with singular nouns to form adjectives with the sense ‘of, involving, or consisting of seventy of the specified thing’, as in seventy-degree, seventy-mile, etc. ΚΠ 1748 Petition of Creditors to Incorporation of Taylors in Canongate 3 At the Time of the Delivery of the said seventy Pound Bill, he paid no Money. 1845 Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 705/1 The propelling powers are two seventy-horse steam-engines. 1893 K. Sanborn Truthful Woman S. Calif. 50 From San Diego to Los Angeles, a seventy-mile run along the coast. 1957 Times 30 Aug. 8/6 A runaway 70-ton Army transporter..careered downhill into the village of Carlton. 1996 D. Rushkoff Playing Future ii. 73 In the first extensive seventy-episode series, Earth has already built a vast number of space colonies on the Lagrange points of our planet. 2003 G. Shteyngart Russ. Debutante's Handbk. iv. xx. 200 The women were dressed for seventy-degree weather in engineer boots, corduroys, and T-shirts of various gloomy hues. C2. 70-year-old n. and adj. (a) adj. that is seventy years of age; (b) n. a person of seventy years of age. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [adjective] > specific age seven?1440 yearing1451 year-old1556 yeared1583 seventy1590 two-year1596 quinquagenarian1603 septuagenary1605 twelvea1616 thirty1618 three-yearling1621 one-eared1645 quadragenarious1656 trimenstruous1656 septennian1662 sexagenarian1663 sexagenary1663 octogenarya1696 seven-year-old1713 quinquagenary1715 yearling1729 septuagesimal1781 septuagenarian1793 octogenarian1818 fortyish1821 seventeen-year-old1821 three-year-old1825 week-old1826 centenarian1828 day-old1831 70-year-old1832 quadragenarian1834 century-old1836 nonagenarian1877 teenaged1913 thirtyish1925 the world > people > person > person of specific age > [noun] one-year-old?1609 cinquanter1611 sexagenariana1646 septuagene1657 quintagenarian1687 threescore1721 septuagenarian1744 centenarian1747 seven-year-old1762 septuagenary1792 centenary1800 nonagenarian1804 sexagenary1814 octogenarian1815 nine-year-old1828 octogenary1828 semi-centenarian1828 quinquagenarian1830 quadragenarian1839 seventeen-year-old1858 70-year-old1870 twenty-firster1912 1832 Court Mag. & Belle Assemblée Aug. 101/1 A fault of which this seventy-year-old Irishman is frequently guilty. 1870 New Castle (Indiana) Courier 5 Aug. There is much in every number to amuse and instruct the sixty-year olds and seventy-year olds. 1966 V. Nabokov Speak, Memory (U.S. rev. ed.) vii. 143 I see shining the same, the very same, locks of that now seventy-year-old valise. 2001 J. Le Fanu They don't know what's Wrong xiv. 220 My 70-year-old father-in-law has been afflicted by feelings of pins and needles all over the body. 2002 Times 22 May ii. 23/2 Most 70-year-olds I know are still pin-sharp and agile enough to thrash people half their age on the tennis court. C3. Specific uses of compound numbers between seventy and eighty (see Compounds 1a(a)). See also seventy-four n. 78 n. (also seventy-eight) a record designed to be played at a speed of 78 rpm; also as a modifier in 78 record.78 rpm was the standard speed for records until the introduction of 33⅓ rpm long-playing microgroove records in 1948. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > a sound recording > [noun] > record or disc > type of record pre-release1871 record album1904 re-release1907 ten-inch1908 twelve-incher1909 demonstration record1911 pressing1912 swinger1924 repressing1927 transcription1931 long-player1932 rush release1935 pop record1937 album1945 demonstration disc1947 pop disc1947 pop single1947 long-play1948 picture disc1948 781949 single1949 forty-five1950 demo disc1952 EP1952 shellac1954 top of the pops1956 gold disc1957 acetate1962 platinum disc1964 chartbuster1965 miss1965 cover1966 reissue1966 pirate label1968 rock record1968 thirty-three (and a third)1968 sampler1969 white-label1970 double album1971 dubplate1976 seven-inch1977 mini-album1980 joint1991 1949 Billboard 8 Jan. 17/1 Since almost all inventory of dealers is in 78, with the dealers enjoying greater return privileges for 78's, as well as sharing greater profits in 78 sales, Krantz said that it was to the best advantage of the dealer to promote 78's. 1967 ‘R. Petrie’ Foreign Bodies xi. 156 Stina looked out her two old seventy-eight records and the four tunes on them sounded through the villa all day. 2007 N. Rosen How to live Off-grid i. 6 There's even a wind-up record player and a stack of old 78s. seventy-five n. (also 75) †(a) Archery a bow with a draw weight of 75 lbs (obsolete); (b) a 75 mm calibre field gun characterized by a hydro-pneumatic recoil mechanism that allows rapid firing, developed by the French military in the late 19th cent.; (also) any of various similar guns derived from this; = French 75 n. (a) at French adj. and n. Compounds 1b; now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > archer's weapons > [noun] > bow > types of bow tax1541 livery bow?a1549 bow of lath1597 yew1605 slug1614 seventy-five1840 self1856 three-wood1875 recurve1961 society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > rifle > types of three-o(h)-three1683 air rifle1801 yager1817 big bore1838 seventy-five1840 telescopic rifle1850 Minié rifle1851 needle rifle1856 pea rifle1856 Lancaster1857 six-shooting1858 Whitworth1858 Henry1861 polygroove1863 telescopic-sighted rifle1863 spencer1866 magazine rifle1867 Snider rifle1868 chassepot1869 Martini–Henry rifle1869 Winchester1871 Mauser rifle1872 Martini1876 saloon rifle1881 express1884 express rifle1884 Mannlicher1884 Mauser1887 Lee-Enfield1888 Flobert1890 pump gun1890 take-down1895 two-two1895 Ross rifle1901 hammer-rifle1907 sporter1907 French 751914 twenty-two1925 machine-gun rifle1941 assault rifle1950 assault weapon1968 kalashnikov1970 assault rifle1975 1840 G. A. Hansard Bk. Archery ix. 368 A seventy-five, which commands all lengths within four hundred yards. 1914 Manch. Courier 28 Sept. 5/6 The position had been strongly fortified by the enemy, and a ten days' bombardment by the famous Seventy-fives of the French artillery had failed to dislodge him. 1917 A. C. Kimber Let. 17 June in P. Gregory & E. Nurser American on Western Front (2016) (e-book ed.) xv The enemy began firing shrapnel from 75s at us, but of course it all flew wild. 1929 Ye Sylvan Archer Mar. 4/2 Our archers work up from the use of thirty and forty pound bows to the deadly 65s, 75s and 80s. 1969 A. Horne To lose Battle xxi. 510 Amongst the guns taken were some 7,000 French ‘75s’ of First War vintage. 2017 J. LaMonica Amer. Tactical Advancem. World War I i. 16 Light artillery was comprised of French Schneider M1897 seventy-five-millimeter cannon. The seventy-five's high rate of fire made it ideal for conducting creeping barrages. 73 n. (also seventy-three) U.S. used by telegraph and (now chiefly) radio operators to indicate any of various expressions of goodwill; ‘best wishes’, ‘goodbye’; also in plural in same sense. ΚΠ 1855 Shaffner's Telegr. Compan. Oct. 399 73. Best respects. 1867 Telegrapher 7 Sept. 14/3 This popular ignorance is as pitiable as it is absurd. 73. O.P. Erator. York, Pa., August 10, 1867. 1901 Washington Post 13 Oct. 35/3 As he prepared to shut off she caught the signal ‘73’, and pricked up her ears. ‘What was that “73” for?’ she asked... ‘Seventy-three,’ he replied, ‘is the universal greeting. It means pretty nearly everything from “have a drink” to an elaborate expression of good will.’ 1918 Railroad Telegrapher Apr. 548/2 Bro. Thomas Donahue..sends his ‘73s’ to all his old pals, and would be glad to hear from them. 1976 S9 (N.Y.) May–June 31/2 Seventy-threes, and 'bye. 1993 Press Assoc. Newswire (Nexis) 19 Aug. An 84-year-old US Coast Guard search-and-rescue tradition has ended with a final Morse code ‘73’ sent by a radio operator in Marshfield, Massachusetts. † seventy-twos n. (also 72s) Obsolete a very small size of paper produced by cutting and folding a printing sheet to form 72 leaves (144 pages); a page of this size, or a book composed of such pages; = seventy-twomo n. ΚΠ 1755 J. Smith Printer's Gram. x. 255 A Half-sheet of Seventy-two's, with Three Signatures. 1865 Printer May 59/1 The form of 72s. 1894 Amer. Dict. Printing & Bookmaking 277/2 Sixty-fours, seventy-twos, eighties and ninety-sixes are also rather curiosities than anything else, their use being rare and mostly confined to cases where an extra four, eight, or sixteen pages are left over at the end of a book. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.eOE
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