twenty-three

alternative twenty three · alternative obsolete twenti-thre · alternative Arabic numeral 23 · alternative Roman numeral XXIII · alternative Roman numeral xxiii

1. The cardinal number immediately following twenty-two and preceding twenty-four; 23.

   Avignon was twenty-three kilometres away, on the second-class road N 570. We could be there in about half an hour. And we were, without stopping to admire any antiquities.

   1953, Gratix Dawson, In Pursuit of the Vine, H. Jenkins, page 196

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   Reſolved, &c. That this Houſe doth accept of the Sum of One hundred Twenty-three Pounds of James Whitewick, of Coventry in the County of Warwick, Gentleman; his Delinguency being, That he went and reſided in the Gariſons held againſt the Parliament: Submitted before December 1645: His Eſtate, per Annum, Sixty Pounds; Perſonal Eſstate, Thirty Pounds: For which the Fine, at a Tenth, is One hundred Twenty-three Pounds.

   1646 October 27, Journals of the House of Commons, House of Commons of the United Kingdom, page 707

   Admiral Rooke, with twenty-three Men of War, having the Turky Fleet under his Convoy, was attacked off Cape St. Vincent by the whole French Fleet, under the Command of Admiral Tourville; twelve Engliſh and Dutch Men of War, and above four-ſcore Merchant-men, were taken or deſtroyed by the French.

   1760, A New Geographical and Historical Grammar, 7 edition, W. Johnston, page 311

   Maryland has exported nearly eight times as much as Connecticut; above six times as much as Rhode Island; twenty-three times as much as New Hampshire; almost eighty times as much as Vermont; and almost three times as much as the four minor states.

   1817, Mathew Carey, The Olive Branch: Or, Faults on Both Sides, Federal and Democratic; a Serious Appeal on the Necessity of Mutual Forgiveness and Harmony, 8 edition, M. Carey and Son, page 271

   Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother's name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.

   2011, Biblica, Holy Bible: New International Version, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, →ISBN, 2 Kings 23:31

   Synonyms: three-and-twenty

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