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Position 17 in a countable series of things
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seventeenth
Word definitions for seventeenth in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, seventenþe , from seventeen + -th (1); replacing forms based on Old English seofonteoþa .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Seventeenth \Sev"en*teenth`\, a. [From Seventeen : cf. AS. seofonte['o eth]a, seofonteoge[eth]a.] Next in order after the sixteenth; coming after sixteen others. In . . . the seventeenth day of the month . . . were all the fountains of the great deep ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. coming next after the sixteenth in position [syn: 17th ] n. position 17 in a countable series of things
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context fractional English) One of seventeen equal parts of a whole. 2 (context music English) An interval of two octaves and a third. num. (context ordinal English) The ordinal form of the number seventeen.
Usage examples of seventeenth.
Brodie reports the history of a case in a negress who voided a fetus from an abscess at the navel about the seventeenth month of conception.
In the seventeenth century, the absolutist reaction to the revolutionary forces of modernity celebrated the patrimonial monarchic state and wielded it as a weapon for its own purposes.
In the seventeenth century, Descartes famously turned in, arguing that the only thing man could be certain of was his inner life, in particular his doubt.
And yet Basho, who lived in the seventeenth century, is the equal of any of them.
Did time and space allow, there is much to be told on the romantic side of chocolate, of its divine origin, of the bloody wars and brave exploits of the Spaniards who conquered Mexico and were the first to introduce cacao into Europe, tales almost too thrilling to be believed, of the intrigues of the Spanish Court, and of celebrities who met and sipped their chocolate in the parlours of the coffee and chocolate houses so fashionable in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
China in the seventeenth century, a great industrial fortune in Germany in the nineteenth, or today, dotcom, that sort of thing.
Numerous scientists of the seventeenth century, from Galileo to Newton, affirmed the Cartesian dualism of the primary properties of the physical world versus the secondary properties associated with human perception.
Probably nothing was ever seen in this world more execrable or more dreadful than those great ceremonies celebrated in Spain and Portugal, in the seventeenth century, at the execution of heretics condemned to death by the Inquisition.
His family are expats, Jews from Cuba who arrived there in the seventeenth century.
The elaborate ruins of Dhlo Dhlo and Khami, of Niekerk and Inyanga and Penhalonga, even the last levels of Mapungubwe, all belong to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: while the Mambo line of Ba-Rozwi rulers which had established itself at Great Zimbabwe in the first years of the seventeenth century would continue into the first decades of the nineteenth.
France filched Italian joinery in the Renaissance, Flemish marquetry in the seventeenth century, English mahogany styles in the eighteenth and so on.
It commemorates a certain Vizzani, if I remember rightly, a jurisconsult who died some time before the middle of the seventeenth century.
The host of political pamphleteers in the seventeenth century are excluded, with the exception of Lilburne and Winstanley, whose work deserves better treatment from posterity than it received from contemporaries.
Democratic ideas were as remote from popular discussion in the eighteenth century as they had been made familiar by Lilburne for a brief season in the seventeenth century.
On this question, and on the real worth of the seventeenth century lyrists, a great deal has to be said hereafter.