Crossword clues for fourteenth
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fourteenth \Four"teenth`\, a. [Cf. OE. fourtende, fourtethe, AS. fe['o]werteo[eth]a.]
Next in order after the thirteenth; as, the fourteenth day of the month.
Making or constituting one of fourteen equal parts into which anything may be divided.
Fourteenth \Four"teenth`\, n.
One of fourteen equal parts into which one whole may be divided; the quotient of a unit divided by fourteen.
(Mus.) The octave of the seventh.
One next after the thirteenth in a series.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. The ordinal form of the number fourteen. n. 1 The person or thing in the fourteenth position. 2 One of fourteen equal parts of a whole.
WordNet
n. position 14 in a countable series of things
adj. coming next after the thirteenth in position [syn: 14th]
Usage examples of "fourteenth".
Trebonius marched up with the Fifth Alauda, the Fourteenth and the Thirteenth.
At which precise moment Trebonius marched up with the Fifth Alauda, the Fourteenth and the Thirteenth.
The absolute veto of the Court of Appeals in the Wynehamer case was replaced by the Supreme Court, under the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, by a more flexible doctrine, which left it open to the State to show reasonable justification for that type of legislation in terms of acknowledged ends of the Police Power, namely, the promotion of the public health, safety and morals.
Bahima conqueror of the fourteenth or fifteenth century imposed a strict prohibition of intermarriage, though sometimes permitting himself a Bairu concubine.
He had asked the cabdriver to let him off at Fourteenth Street and had been walking for the past hour and a half.
He answers that, as applied, the Act denies a liberty secured to him by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Platonism of the Renaissance, as developed in the fourteenth century by Ficino and Pico.
Her beloved nieces, Mary and Dolley Cutts, who were living nearby on Fourteenth Street, were there to greet her.
And he gave ear to the music, delighting himself in rich imagery, in rare epithets, in the luminous metaphors, the exquisite harmonies, the subtle refinements which distinguished his metrical style and the mysterious artifices of the endecasyllabic verse learned from the admirable poets of the fourteenth century, and more especially from Petrarch.
The next afternoon, on the way to the park with Gabi, Mia offered the bracelet at a couple of pawn shops on Fourteenth Street: no takers.
The Komi people had been forcibly converted to the Christian faith by St Stephan in the fourteenth century.
FDR Drive, which was a controlled-access expressway, the roadway here was dotted with stoplights and, at Fourteenth Street, it featured a jog that sent her misaligned Chevrolet into an alarming skid, resulting in a sparking kiss between sheet steel and concrete barriers.
English-speaking people an added interest in Guy de Chauliac will be the fact that one of his teachers at Montpellier was Bernard Gordon, very probably a Scotchman, who taught for some thirty-five years at this famous university in the south of France, and died near the end of the first quarter of the fourteenth century.
Scotch professor and an English fellow-student, afterwards a royal physician, at Montpellier, at the beginning of the fourteenth century, shows how much more cosmopolitan was university life in those times than we are prone to think, and what attraction a great university medical school possessed even for men from long distances.
Three men taught at the University of Montpellier at the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century, John de Tornamira, Valesco de Taranta, and John Faucon.