thirtyadj.n.
/ˈθəːti/, U.S. /ˈθərdi/ A. adj.† 3. As ordinal: = thirtieth adj. and n. So thirty-two for thirty-second, etc. Obsolete.
1.
a. The cardinal numeral equal to three tens, represented by the symbols 30 or xxx. With modified noun expressed or implied.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [adjective] > thirty
thirtyc950
α.
β. 1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1859) v. v. 76 The sterres..were sette by thyrty and by thyrty, in suche a maner wyse, that in euery thyrty was sette a grete sonne.1526 Bible (Tyndale) Luke iii. f. lxxvijv And Iesus..was about thirty yere of age when he began.1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 367/2 Trente, thurty, xxx.1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Thyrtye tymes, tricies.1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 1197 Your ill-meaning Politician Lords..Appointed to await me thirty spies. View more context for this quotation1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. II. 33 Lenders of money into Vermont received thirty per cent. interest from farmers.c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Luke iii. 23 Hælend wæs onginnende suelce wintra ðrittih [Rushw. ðritig, Ags. G. þrit[t]ig, Hatt. þrittig(e.]
OE Beowulf 123 Wiht unhælo..genam þritig þegna.
c1000 Ælfric Genesis vi. 15 Þreohund fæðma..on lenge..and þrittig on heahnisse.
c1000 Ælfric Genesis xviii. 30 Hwæt, gif þær beoð þritig?
a1175 Cott. Hom. 225 Þritti fedme [OE. þrittig fæðma] heah.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 3207 Neh Off þrittiȝ winnterr elde.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 13292 After þan þreom cnihten þritti þer comen. after þan þrittie [c1300 Otho þritti] heo iseȝen þreo þusende.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 7055 He was fleme & frendles mo þan þritty [MS. B. þrutty, C. þretty] ȝer.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 1216 Vs telles of adam þis story, of sones he had ful þretty [Vesp. thirtti, Gött. thritti, Trin. Cambr. þritty].
a1450 J. Myrc Festial 22 And duret soo þrytty wyntyr.
c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 53 Judas sold Him onis..for þritty penies.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) ix. 639 Quhar ay for ane thai var thretty.
1490 Caxton's Blanchardyn & Eglantine (1962) xxi. 71 Hath he not taken this daye..threty coursers?
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Feb. 17 Selfe haue I worne out thrise threttie yeares.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 327 ‘Ye may ca' the twenty punds thretty,’ said Dumbiedikes.
b. In combination with the numerals one to nine, to express numbers between thirty and forty, as thirty-one, thirty-six, also (now less commonly) one-and-thirty, six-and-thirty, etc., and the ordinals thirty-first, thirty-second, thirty-ninth, etc., now less usually one-and-thirtieth, five-and-thirtieth, etc. Also as a multiple of higher numbers, as thirty thousand, thirty-six millions.
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971 Blickl. Hom. 35 Ne bið þara fæstendaga na ma þonne syx & þritig.
c1000 West Saxon Gospels: John (Corpus Cambr.) v. 5 Ðær wæs sum man eahta and þrittig [c950 Lind. ðrittih, c975 Rushw. ðritig] wintra on his untrumnysse.
c1200 Vices & Virt. 51 Þrie and þrihti wintre and an half.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 2158 Thre hundrid and eyt and thriti ȝere.
a1400 Sir Beues (A.) 4532 Þe nombre was, veraiment, To and þretti þosent.
?c1425 Crafte Nombrynge in R. Steele Earliest Arithm. in Eng. (1922) 5 Rede forth þus. 9. thousand sex hundryth thritty & foure.
1536 T. Cromwell in R. B. Merriman Life & Lett. T. Cromwell (1902) II. 26 In the yere of our Lorde god a thousande five hundreth syxt and thritty.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 696 Thirty thousand Englishmen were that day left dead in the field.
1711 London Gaz. No. 4903/2 On the Thirty-first of the last Month.
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Aloe The fifth,..thirty-fourth, and thirty-fifth Sorts require a greater Share of Heat.
1797 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 659/1 In the 39th degree of latitude.
1837 R. Southey Let. 24 Nov. The difference of five and thirty years between me and Bertha.
1884 Harper's Mag. Feb. 471/2 One-thirty-sixth of their..area.
c. Phrases. the Thirty (Tyrants): the thirty magistrates imposed by Sparta upon the Athenians at the end of the Peloponnesian war (403 b.c.). the Thirty Years' War: the religious wars of 1618–48 fought chiefly on German soil. like thirty cents and variants, cheap, worthless (U.S. slang).
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society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [noun] > other specific war
Punic War1556
Vandal war1613
American Civil War1775
Seven Years War1775
Revolutionary Wara1784
Peninsular war1811
Great War1815
Mormon war1833
opium war1841
the Thirty Years' War1841
the Thirty Years' War1842
Mexican War1846
Napoleonic War1850
Crimean War1854
Hundred Years War1874
Balkan war1881
Boer War1883
Winter War1939
Six Day War1967
Yom Kippur War1973
Gulf War1981
Falklands conflict1982
society > authority > office > holder of office > magistrate > [noun] > in ancient Greece > specific body of
undecimvirs1728
undecimvirate1775
the Thirty (Tyrants)1875
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > contemptible [phrase]
like thirty cents1906
lower than a snake's belly1932
1842 Penny Cycl. XXIV. 382/1 This conquest was the last important event of the Thirty Years' War, which began and ended at Prague.
1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 266 Anytus..had joined Thrasybulus in the conflict with the Thirty.
1896 G. Ade Artie i. 8 If I had time I'd go over to that church and make a lot o' them Reubs look like thirty-cent pieces.
1906 J. London Let. 24 Nov. (1966) 225 You made my exposition look like thirty cents.
1944 Chicago Daily News 31 July 3/6 (heading) Sues to make Uncle Sam feel like a 30-cent refund.
1973 T. Tobin Lett. G. Ade 2 Feeling ‘like thirty cents’ and ‘the cold gray dawn of the morning after’ became part of the American idiom.
2. spec. (elliptical).
a. The age of thirty; thirty years (of age, old, etc.). So thirty-one, etc.
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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
c1000 in Anglia (1889) 11 3/77 Se hælend wæs þrittig þa hine mann fullude.
1618 G. Chapman tr. Hesiod Georgicks ii. 486 Thy selfe, if well in yeares; thy wife take home, Not much past thirtie; nor haue much to come.
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 373 A cooler and elder man than I was, being then but thirty.
1780 F. Burney Jrnl. Apr. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (2003) IV. 30 Conversable as he could have been at 32.
1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede II. iv. xxxi. 316 She might well die o' th' inflammation afore she war thirty.
b. In stating the time of day, thirty minutes; as in six-thirty = 6.30 o'clock, half-past six; also attributive as the 6.30 train.
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the world > time > particular time > [adjective] > of the time of day > minutes before or after the hour
half past one1750
ten1852
thirty1870
1870 M. Bridgman Robert Lynne xvi Mr. Lynne had come down..by the 7.30, and departed by the 9.45.
1899 Westm. Gaz. 23 Dec. 6/3 He who came a moment after eleven-thirty stood very small chance of getting anywhere near the carriage door.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [adjective] > thirty > thirtieth
thirtietha900
thirtyc1380
trigesimal1637
c1380 J. Wyclif Last Age Church p. xxiv Þe þre and þritty sermon.
1592 in R. Hyrde tr. J. L. Vives Instr. Christian Woman (new ed.) iii. v. sig. Cc7v In the hundred and thirtie Psalme.
1594 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 i. i. 47 Ere the 30. of the next month.
1606 G. W. tr. Epit. Liues Emperors in tr. Justinus Hist. sig. Ff ij He died the thirty two year of his age.
1609 J. Skene tr. Stat. William in Regiam Majestatem 3 The sextene veshell, or the tuentie or threttie.
B. n.
1. The abstract number; also, a symbol representing this. So thirty-one, thirty-six, etc.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [noun] > thirty
thirtyc1050
the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [noun] > thirty > figure denoting
thirty?c1425
c1050 Byrhtferth's Handboc in Anglia (1885) 8 302 Fif siðon seofon beoð fif & þrittig.
?c1425 Crafte Nombrynge in R. Steele Earliest Arithm. in Eng. (1922) 4 The figure of 3...betokens ten tymes more þen he schuld & he stode þere þat þe figure of 4. stondes, þat is thretty.
1501 in Exch. Rolls Scotl. XII. 236 (note) The nomir threttynyne.
1912 N.E.D. at Thirty Mod. A Roman thirty is written thus: xxx. Twice thirty are sixty.
2.
a. the thirties n. the years of which the numbers begin with 30; the fourth decade of a century.
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the world > time > period > year > [noun] > period of specific number of years > decade > specific decade in a century or person's life
seventies1845
nineties1871
twenties1874
the fifties1880
the thirties1880
the forties1885
sixties1964
zeros1989
1880 G. Meredith Tragic Comedians II. viii. 125 His forty years..matched the twenties and thirties of other men.
1883 J. R. Seeley Expansion of Eng. 288 Dating only from about the thirties of the present century.
1892 A. E. Lee Hist. Columbus II. 73 The company..maintained its primary organization until some time in the early thirties.
b. attributive. spec. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the 1930s.
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1967 Observer 10 Sept. 24/3 Heaven knows, you can peg people by their opinions—‘thirties communist’ or ‘New Statesman type’ seems as hard a definition as ‘whisky priest’ or ‘teacher's pet’.
1969 ‘J. Munro’ Innocent Bystanders xiv. 205 The whole thing was as English as a Thirties farce: sandwiches and tinkling spoons.
1971 ‘G. Charles’ Destiny Waltz v. 149 It was…furnished in a heavy, thirties style.
1976 S. Hynes Auden Generation iii. 82 New Signatures..was the first anthology of 'thirties poets.
1981 C. Leopold Night Fishers of Antibes ii. 15 His Thirties forehead with the thin black hair brushed back from a parting precisely dead centre.
3. (See quot. 1895) U.S. Also in journalism, broadcasting, and wider slang use.
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society > communication > printing > material to be printed > [noun] > last part of
thirty1895
the world > life > death > [noun]
hensithOE
qualmOE
bale-sithea1000
endingc1000
fallOE
forthsitheOE
soulingOE
life's endOE
deathOE
hethensithc1200
last end?c1225
forthfarec1275
dying1297
finec1300
partingc1300
endc1305
deceasec1330
departc1330
starving1340
passingc1350
latter enda1382
obita1382
perishingc1384
carrion1387
departing1388
finishmentc1400
trespassement14..
passing forthc1410
sesse1417
cess1419
fininga1425
resolutiona1425
departisona1450
passagea1450
departmentc1450
consummation?a1475
dormition1483
debt to (also of) naturea1513
dissolutionc1522
expirationa1530
funeral?a1534
change1543
departure1558
last change1574
transmigration1576
dissolving1577
shaking of the sheets?1577
departance1579
deceasure1580
mortality1582
deceasing1591
waftage1592
launching1599
quietus1603
doom1609
expire1612
expiring1612
period1613
defunctiona1616
Lethea1616
fail1623
dismissiona1631
set1635
passa1645
disanimation1646
suffering1651
abition1656
Passovera1662
latter (last) end1670
finis1682
exitus1706
perch1722
demission1735
demise1753
translation1760
transit1764
dropping1768
expiry1790
departal1823
finish1826
homegoing1866
the last (also final, great) round-up1879
snuffing1922
fade-out1924
thirty1929
appointment in Samarra1934
dirt nap1981
big chill1987
society > communication > journalism > working practices and conditions > [noun] > end of shift
thirty1929
society > occupation and work > work > times or periods of work > [noun] > stopping work > stopping time
upwark15..
leaving-off time1834
quitting time1835
knocking-off1883
shutting-up time1889
knock-off time1899
thirty1929
1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. Thirty..among printers and telegraphers, the last sheet, word, or line of copy or of a despatch; the last; the end.
1929 Amer. Speech 4 290 ‘30’ or ‘Thirty’ indicates the end of a shift or of the day's work, and has come to mean, also, death.
1938 Sun (Baltimore) 20 Jan. 2/8 Newsmen..mourned today at the bier of Edward J. Neil,..who was killed by shrapnel while covering the civil war..in Spain. Prominent..was a shield of white carnations with a red~flowered figure ‘30’—the traditional ‘good night’ in the lore of the fourth estate.
1941 J. Smiley Hash House Lingo 58 30, end of anything.
1945 J. O'Hara in New Yorker 27 Jan. 22/3 ‘I say thank you and thirty.’ This last, the word ‘thirty’, is the traditional signing-off signal of the newspaper business.
1973 R. Ludlum Matlock Paper xxix. 251 The number 30 at the bottom of any news copy meant the story was finished.
1978 G. Vidal Kalki iv. i. 88 ‘When we know those two things, it's fat thirty time.’ Bruce had obviously been impressed by journalism school.
4. Thirty and its compounds in elliptical uses: e.g. thirty-four, port-wine of the year 1834; thirty-eight, a revolver of ·38 calibre; ammunition for such a revolver; thirty-three (and a third), 33⅓, 33⅓ revolutions per minute; a gramophone record to be played at this speed; thirty-two, a thirty-two-pound gun; a flowerpot of which there are 32 in a ‘cast’ (see cast n. 15); a revolver of ·32 calibre; see also thirtytwomo n.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > bullet or shell > bullet > types of bullet
pistol bullet?1591
musket bullet1598
musket ball1637
silver bullet1648
three-o(h)-three1683
pistol ball1689
musket shot1755
Biscayen1812
picket1848
rifle bolt1849
Minié ball1851
Minié1852
expanding bullet1859
navy bullet1873
two-two1895
dum-dum1897
Lee-Enfield bullet1899
rubber bullet1900
full-metal-jacket1913
round-nose1932
thirty-two1942
plastic bullet1945
baton round1968
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > pistol > revolver > types of
six-shooter1844
five-shooter1848
belt revolver1853
six-shooting1858
pepperbox1861
service revolver1864
navy1867
six chamber1877
forty-five1881
pepper castor1889
hip revolver1897
six-gun1912
six chamber revolver1922
police special1935
thirty-two1942
thirty-eight1953
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
1802 W. Forsyth Treat. Fruit-trees viii. 113 (note) [Flower] Pots are denominated by the number contained in what the Potters call a Cast... [The] 5 [size, of] 32 [in the Cast is called] Thirty-two's.
1860 All Year Round 28 July 378 ‘Toasts are almost out of date’, I replied; ‘but the 'thirty-four must pay for this’.
1870 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. Feb. 85 They..could knock the thirty-twos about in the style characteristic of British sailors.
1903 D. McDonald Garden Compan. 2nd Ser. 70 They choose pots of various sizes—those called thirty-twos (6 in.) seem to be most liked.
1942 L. Hughes Shakespeare in Harlem 3 Gonna go get my pistol, I mean thirty-two.
1951 E. Sackville-West & D. Shawe-Taylor Rec. Guide 716 While we in England cannot say how bad were the worst of the early Columbia 33s, or how good the best of the Victor 45s, the difference would have to be great to justify..the Victor system.
1953 W. S. Burroughs Junkie i. 20 Jack's voice..went on and on... ‘Give me a thirty-eight every time. Just flick back the hammer and let her go. I'll drop anyone at five hundred feet.’
1959 I. Jefferies Thirteen Days iv. 46 Mostly I filled up with nine-milli..but I threw in some thirty-eights and three-oh-three.
1968 Melody Maker 22 June 2 This is the EP which is recorded at 33⅓ and plays for 18 minutes.
1974 R. B. Parker Godwulf Manuscript iii. 17 The girl's voice..was thick and very slow, almost like a 45 record played at 33.
1978 R. Thomas Chinaman's Chance III. xxix. 291 We need a couple of pieces... Revolvers. No smaller than a thirty-two, no larger than a thirty-eight.
Compounds
C1. With nouns forming attributive phrases, as thirty-acre, thirty-day, thirty-foot, thirty-hour, thirty-knot, thirty-pound, thirty-ton, thirty-word, thirty year; hence thirty-footer, thirty-miler, thirty-tonner, etc. (a…of thirty feet, miles, tons, etc.). So with the compounds thirty-one, thirty-nine, etc., as thirty-two-horse (power), thirty-months-old; thirty-three-year; thirty-two-celled, thirty-four-seated, thirty-eight-volumed adjs.; thirty-five-tonner, thirty-six-pounder, etc. (a…of thirty-…tons, pounds, etc.); thirty-five millimetre, thirty-five mm., thirty-five mil(l). (photographic film, camera).
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > plates and films > [adjective] > types of film
thirty-five millimetre1666
soft?1863
pushable1871
unexposed1892
lenticulated1925
prescreened1929
lenticular1934
pan1940
subminiature1977
1666 J. Davies tr. C. de Rochefort Hist. Caribby-Islands 200 These French Servants, by reason of the three years service they are engaged to, are commonly called the Thirty-six-months-men.
1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xiv. 81 Drill Double Rows with Eight-Inch Partitions, and Thirty-Inch Intervals.
1775 Ann. Reg. 163/2 They are about the size of a thirty-six shilling piece.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 491 The great wheel..pulley on its axis, over which the cord goes (as in a common thirty-hour clock).
1876 R. D. Blackmore Cripps II. xii. 208 This is the worst time of year to take cold. ‘A May cold is a thirty-day cold.’
1880 J. F. Carll Geol. Oil Regions III. 197 Sand shells and slate, ‘30' Rock’.
1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 13 Where the mighty thirty-five-tonner is shaking the earth.
1907 Westm. Gaz. 21 Mar. 9/1 The working expenses of thirty-four-seated petrol motor-omnibuses.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 8 Mar. 12/2 A thirty-six holes match has been arranged between..one-armed golfers.
1909 Times Lit. Suppl. 18 Mar. 101/2 This thirty-eight-volumned behemoth.
1938 R. M. Fanstone Colour Photogr. i. 17 Agfacolor... 35 mm. film for miniature cameras.
1969 ‘H. Pentecost’ Girl Watcher's Funeral (1970) iii. i. 123 ‘What kind of a camera was it, Morrie?’ I asked. ‘Leica—thirty-five millimeter,’ he said.
1971 O. Norton Corpse-bird Cries vi. 116 ‘He couldn't have—well, turned the film back, or anything?’ ‘On a thirty-five mil Paxette? No, he couldn't.’
1972 I. Hamilton Thrill Machine xxii. 102 It's a low-quality blow-up from thirty-five mill. movie film.
1978 F. Maclean Take Nine Spies vi. 196 His visitor brought out two rolls of 35 mm film.
1978 S. Sheldon Bloodline xxxviii. 341 The thirty-foot police boat..had been built for service, not comfort.
C2. † thirty-cross n. Obsolete one of the transverse bars of a cross staff, viz. that used for about 30°.† thirty-perforce n. Obsolete name of an old card game: see quot.† thirty-pound knight n. Obsolete one alleged to have obtained his knighthood for a payment of thirty pounds.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > navigational aids > [noun] > cross-staff > limb of
transitory?1574
transom1594
transversary1595
thirty-cross1726
1726 Four Years Voy. Capt. G. Roberts 102 They left my Fore~staff, with only the Thirty-cross, having as I suppose, flung the other Crosses over-board.
thirty days n. Canadian and U.S. a month.
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the world > time > period > a month or calendar month > [noun]
montheOE
moonshine1608
menology1807
calendar month1827
mo1836
thirty days1928
1928 Publishers' Weekly 30 June 2596 The ideal turnover would be about every thirty days or twelve times a year.
thirty-knotter n.
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1918 Chambers's Jrnl. July 462/2 She..was an old ‘thirty knotter’.
Thirty-nine Articles n. clauses of a doctrinal statement drawn up by the Church of England in the sixteenth century, to which those taking orders in that Church have to assent.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > creed > [noun] > article
article?c1225
Thirty-nine Articles1607
1607 T. Rogers Faith, Doctr., & Relig. Pref. sig. ¶¶¶¶3 The purpose of our Church is best knowne by the Doctrine which shee doth professe; the Doctrine by the *39. Articles, established by Act of Parliament.
1739 (title) Thirty nine articles of constitutions & canons of Church of England.
1862 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. (ed. 3) xvii. 272 (note) The Church is not even synonymous with the clergy..according to the definition in the Thirty-nine Articles.
1903 G. B. Shaw Man & Superman viii. 211 Straightforward public lying has reached gigantic developments, there being nothing to choose..between..the clergyman subscribing the thirty-nine articles, and the vivisector who pledges his knightly honor that no animal operated on in the physiological laboratory suffers the slightest pain.
1969 A. Richardson Dict. Christian Theol. 336/1 In their revised form the Thirty-nine Articles were passed by Convocation in 1571 and the text finally determined in 1604... Subscription is still required from clergymen on their ordination.
thirty-penny nail n. a size of nail: see penny n. 5.
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1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 135 Nails of sorts are..30, and 40-penny nails.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > others
laugh and lie down1522
mack1548
decoyc1555
pinionc1557
to beat the knave out of doors1570
imperial1577
prima vista1587
loadum1591
flush1598
prime1598
thirty-perforce1599
gresco1605
hole1621
my sow's pigged1621
slam1621
fox-mine-host1622
whipperginnie1622
crimpa1637
hundred1636
pinache1641
sequence1653
lady's hole1658
quebas1668
art of memory1674
costly colours1674
penneech1674
plain dealing1674
wit and reason1680
comet1685
lansquenet1687
incertain1689
macham1689
uptails1694
quinze1714
hoc1730
commerce1732
matrimonya1743
tredrille1764
Tom come tickle me1769
tresette1785
snitch'ems1798
tontine1798
blind hazard1816
all fives1838
short cards1845
blind hookey1852
sixty-six1857
skin the lamb1864
brisque1870
handicap1870
manille1874
forty-five1875
slobberhannes1877
fifteen1884
Black Maria1885
slapjack1887
seven-and-a-half1895
pit1904
Russian Bank1915
red dog1919
fan-tan1923
Pelmanism1923
Slippery Sam1923
go fish1933
Russian Banker1937
racing demon1938
pit-a-pat1947
scopa1965
1599 J. Minsheu Pleasant Dialogues Spanish & Eng. iii. 25 in R. Percyvall & J. Minsheu Spanish Gram. Behold here are the cards, let vs play at thirtie perforce, or Albures [Sp. juguemos treinta por fuerça, o los albures], for these are good plaies.
thirty-pounder n. a gun throwing a shot of thirty pounds: so thirty-six-pounder, etc.
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1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Cannon A thirty-two-pounder.
1812 R. Hall in Examiner 12 Oct. 648/1 Two batteries of..thirty-six pounders commanded the beach.
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society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > knight > [noun] > one said to have paid for knighthood
thirty-pound knight1605
1605 G. Chapman et al. Eastward Hoe iv. sig. F4 I ken the man weel, hee's one of my thirty pound Knights.
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thirty-second-note n. Music a note of the length of 1/ 32 of a semibreve, a demisemiquaver.
thirty-year rule n. a rule that public records should normally be open to inspection after a lapse of thirty years from their compilation.
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society > law > types of laws > [noun] > legal or administrative
Ragmanc1400
Statute of Sewers1571
Poynings' Act1613
Poynings' Law1622
Statute of Limitations1641
Act (or Bill) of Indemnity1647
new tables1664
Habeas Corpus Act1705
Judicature Act1782
continuance act1863
stay-law1880
ripper1885
reception statute1931
thirty-year rule1966
sunshine law1968
1966 Times 11 Aug. 13/2 In two years' time the 30-year rule will be operating.
1979 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 25 Oct. 52/2 British Foreign Office papers recently opened under the thirty-year rule verify Butterfield's point.
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thirty-something n. [popularized as a catch-phrase by the U.S. television programme thirtysomething, first broadcast in 1987] colloquial (originally U.S.) an undetermined age between thirty and forty; spec. applied to members of the ‘baby boom’ generation entering their thirties in the mid-1980s; also attributive or as adj. phr. (hence, characteristic of the tastes and lifestyle of this group).
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the world > people > person > person of specific age > [adjective]
one-year-old?1609
seven-year-old1713
seventeen-year-old1821
nine-year-old1828
centenarian1854
twentyish1928
thirty-something1981
1981 N.Y. Times 26 July ii. 7/5 William Finn is 29 or thereabouts. Wendy Wassenstein is 30-something.
1987 New Republic 2 Nov. 50/1 The show is a critical success (most people reviewing television are thirtysomething), touted as this season's ‘L.A. Law’.
1988 Los Angeles Times 26 June i.1/6 These are the women who should be the bread and butter of U.S. retailing, the baby boomers in the workplace, the thirty-something crowd seen by retailers as having money to burn.
1990 Independent 23 Feb. 18/8 I am the thirtysomething mother of a two-year-old and a six-month-old. I find nothing glamorous about it at all.
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Real Tennis and Tennis. The second point won in a game by a player or doubles partnership.In quot. ?1536 as part of an extended metaphor likening an engagement during Henry V's campaign in France in 1415 to a tennis game, based on the insulting gift of tennis balls sent to him by the Dauphin of France. [After Middle French trente in similar use (originally with reference to paume or real tennis).]
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?1536 Batayll of Eygyngecourte sig. A.iii Thyrty sayd ye seconde gun I wyll wyn & I may.
1593 J. Eliot Ortho-epia Gallica ii. ix. 60/3 Thirtie all.
a1672 P. Skippon in F. Willughby Bk. of Games (2003) 106 If the adverse getts the next stroke he reckons 30 for the others 15.
1740 S. Lowe French Rudim. (new ed.) 31 30 all.
1775 ‘Connoisseur’ Ann. Gaming iii. 52 Instead of its being marked one, two, three, four, it is called fifteen, thirty, forty, game.
1833 W. H. Maxwell Field Bk. 496/2 The game..is called for the first stroke, fifteen; for the second, thirty; for the third, forty.
1875 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 31/2 The marker cries, ‘Thirty love!’
1921 W. T. Tilden Art of Lawn Tennis (ed. 2) iv. 36 He missed his volley off my return of the next service, and I led at 30–40.
1956 Times of India 1 July 8/1 With the score at thirty-all Kumar..hit a low volley into the net.
2014 F. Klaassen & J. R. Magnus Analyzing Wimbledon i. 1 Federer serves an ace at..30-40.
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