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fourteenth, a. and n.|fɔəˈtiːnθ, ˈfɔətiːnθ|
Forms: 1 féowertéoða, -teoᵹða, 3 fourteothe, fowrtuðe, 3–4 four-, south. vourteþe, fourtend, (3 four-, fortend), 4 faurtend, fourtenþe, -teneth, 6– fourteenth.
[OE. féowertéoða, f. féowertýne fourteen on the analogy of téoða tenth. (For the subsequent history of the forms cf. fifteenth.)]
The ordinal numeral belonging to the cardinal fourteen.
A. adj. in concord with n. expressed; also ellipt. fourteenth part: one of 14 equal parts into which a whole is divided.
c900tr. Bæda's Hist. i. iv. (1890) 32 Se wæs feowerteoþa fram Agusto þam casere. a1000Martyrologium 82 On þone feowerteoᵹðan dæᵹ þæs monðes bið þara haliᵹra þrowung sancte Victores ond sancte Coronan. a1225Juliana 79 Þe fowrtuðe Kalende of mearch þat is seoððen. 1297R. Glouc. (1724) 408 Þe vourteþe day of Jenyuer vor honger þanne hii wende. c1300St. Brandan 331 The thretteoth [brother] fram the to the ylle of ankres schal wende, And the fourteothe to helle al quic. 1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 6581 Þe fourtend payne despayre es cald. 1579Fulke Heskins' Parl. 181 The fourteenth Chapter expoundeth the same text. 1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacr. ii. vii. §3 The fourteenth of Nisan was passed before the sanctification of the Temple was finished. 1805W. Saunders Min. Waters 18 Aquatic trees..contain only about a fourteenth part of their weight of solid matter. 1861M. Pattison Ess. (1889) I. 44 The massive and imposing style of the fourteenth century.
B. n.
a. A fourteenth part.
b. Mus. The octave or replicate of the seventh.
1597Morley Introd. Mus. 71 Phi. Which distances make discord? Ma. A ninth, aleuenth, a fourteenth, etc. 1800Young in Phil. Trans. XCI. 59 Its transverse diameter must be diminished one-fourteenth..of an inch.
Hence fourteenthly adv., in the fourteenth place.
a1642Sir W. Monson Naval Tracts iii. (1704) 322/1 Fourteenthly, They ought to Sign Estimates. 1691–8Norris Pract. Disc. (1711) III. 170 And Fourteenthly, That our Blessed Lord himself was thus treated. |