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eighteenth, a.|eɪˈtiːnθ, ˈeɪtiːnθ|
Forms (see eight) + 1 -tuða, -teða, -téoða (fem. neut. -ðe), 3 -teþe, -tenthe, 4 -teoþe, 6 -tenth, 6– -teenth; from 6– the t of eight has been dropped, though some dialects still retain it in pronunciation.
[OE. eahtatéoða, f. eahta, eight + téoða tenth; cf. ON. áttjándi; in the other OldTeut. langs. this numeral is not recorded. The mod. form is f. eighteen + -th1 (after fourth) which has become the ordinal suffix for all numerals above 3.]
Next in order after the seventeenth. Hence eighˈteenthly adv., in the eighteenth place.
c893K. ælfred Oros. vi. ii. §3 On þæm eahteteoþan ᵹeare his [Tiberius'] rices..wearð micel þeosternes ofer eallne middangeard. 1258Procl. Hen. III (ed. Ellis 1868) Witnesse vs seluen æt Lundæn þane eȝtetenþe day on the Monþe of Octobr. 1297R. Glouc. (1810) 436 Þo deyde Mold þys god quene, enlene hondred ȝer And eyȝteþe after þat God anerþe alyȝte her. c1305St. Swithin 5 in E.E.P. (1862) 43 Þe eiȝteteoþe king. 1530Palsgr. 372 Dixhuitiesme, eyghtenth. 1579Fulke Heskins' Parl. 192 The eighteenth Chapter beginneth the exposition. 1611Bible 1 Kings xv. 1 In the eighteenth yeere of king Ieroboam. 1872Morley Voltaire (1886) 4 Voltairism may stand for the name of the Renaissance of the eighteenth century.
1642Sir W. Monson Naval Tracts iii. (1704) 322/2 Eighteenthly, That One of the Three Officers do..reside at Chatham. 1681H. More Exp. Dan. App. iii. 303 Eighteenthly, why..should the name..be said to be written? |