XXVIIth

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A form of twenty-seventh — The ordinal form of the number twenty-seven.

Scrabble 27

Meanings

adjectiveXXVIIth (not comparable)
  1. abbreviationnot comparableAbbreviation of twenty-seventh; 27th.

    (DURING THE FIRST SESSION OF THE XXVIIth GENERAL COURT.)

    1808, Journal of the House of Representatives, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston: Adams and Rhoades
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    ‡ The XXVIIth Canon requires, the Miniſter never wittingly to adminiſter the Communion to any, but to ſuch as kneel.

    1746, The Dissenting Gentleman’s Answer To the Reverend Mr. White’s Three Letters; In Which A Separation from the Establishment is fully justified; The Charge of Schism is refuted and retorted; And the Church of England and the Church of Jesus Christ, are impartially compared, and set in Contrast, and found to be Constitutions of a quite Different Nature, London: R. Hett, page 15

    […], whence it is evident, that the general ſolution to the XXVIIth Problem, does not include the particular caſe propoſed.

    1764, Samuel Clark, An Easy Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Mechanics; Containing a Variety of Curious and Important Problems Investigated with the greatest Facility by the Application of One General Property of the Center of Gravity Without having Recourse to the Composition and Resolution of Forces, London: Nourse, John, page viii

    Either the court was reluctant to grant, or the Huguenots were careless in requesting, a new ecclesiastical assembly; and six years elapsed after the meeting at Charenton before another National Synod, the XXVIIth, was convened at Alençon.

    1834, Edward Smedley, History of the Reformed Religion in France, volume III, New-York: Harper & Brothers, page 180

    After all that has been said and written about illiteracy, one may well ask whether it was appropriate to include this subject, so much discussed elsewhere, in the agenda of the XXVIIth International Conference on Public Education.

    1964, XXVIIth International Conference on Public Education, 1964

    Naples, Museo Nazionale, no. 1068. Black “basalt”. H.: 0.98 m. (?) XXVIIth Dynasty. Inscribed. Kneeling statue.

    1972, The Egyptian and Egyptianizing Monuments of Imperial Rome, page 113

    Synonyms: 27th, twenty-seventh

Synonyms & antonyms

Origin

From XXVII (Roman numeral representing twenty-seven) + -th (ordinal suffix).

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