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hundredth, a. and n.|ˈhʌndrədθ|
(Also 4–6 hundreth, 4 hundret, -re, -ride, 5 hondred, 7 hundred).
[f. hundred + -th1. Of late formation: OE. had no ordinal from hund or hundred; ME. sometimes used forms identical with the cardinal, as is still done dialectally.]
The ordinal numeral belonging to the cardinal hundred.
A. adj.
1. Coming last in order of a hundred successive individuals.
1483Cath. Angl. 192/1 Hundreth, centum, centenus..cente[s]imus. 1570Levins Manip. 88/44 Y⊇ Hundreth, centesimus. 1630Drayton Noah's Flood (R.), On the six hundredth year of that just man, The second month, the seventeenth day began That horrid deluge. 1631R. Byfield Doctr. Sabb. 14 The one hundred generation. 1841W. Spalding Italy & It. Isl. I. 103 Extending to the hundredth milestone.
2. hundredth part: one of a hundred equal parts into which a whole is or may be divided.
a1300Cursor M. 23140 Þe hundret [Gött. hundreth, F. hundre, Tr. hundride] part i mai noght mele. 1413Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton) v. i. (1859) 71, I sawe therof not the hondred part. a1600Hooker (J.), We shall not need to use the hundredth part of that time. 1665Hooke Microgr. 213 Not above a four or five hundredth part of a well grown Mite. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. Wks. V. 111 [He] has not power left..by the hundredth part sufficient to hold together this collection of republicks. 1833N. Arnott Physics I. 39 Compressed..so as to have bulk about a hundredth part less.
B. n.
1. A hundredth part.
1774C. J. Phipps Voy. N. Pole 124 Divided..by a Vernier division into hundredths of an inch. 1800Young in Phil. Trans. XCI. 40 We will therefore call this distance 12 hundredths. 1861Mill Utilit. ii. 26 Ninety-nine hundredths of all our actions are done from other motives.
2. Old Hundredth, a hymn tune which first appeared in the Geneva psalter of 1551 and was later set to Psalm 100 in the ‘old’ metrical version of the Geneva Psalter (hymn 166 in ‘Hymns Ancient and Modern’); the psalm itself. Also attrib.
[1790Brady & Tate New Version Psalms 240 The Psalms in this Version of four Lines in a single Stanza..may properly be sung as the old 100 Psalm.] 1837T. Bacon First Impr. Hindostan I. vi. 153, I have often..heard the organ pealing forth the solemn notes of the old hundredth psalm. 1837Dickens Pickw. xxxii. 349 Brother Mordlin had adapted the beautiful words of ‘Who hasn't heard of a Jolly Young Waterman?’ to the tune of the Old Hundredth. 1840― Old C. Shop xviii. 192 The dog..ground hard at the organ..and applied himself..to the Old Hundredth. 1853Mrs. Gaskell Cranford xv. 298, I found out from the words, far more than from the attempt at the tune, that it was the Old Hundredth she was crooning to herself. 1934R. Ferguson Celebrated Sequels 25 Our vicar's wife says that on the whole we had better stick to the Old Hundredth. 1955M. Gilbert Sky High i. 7 ‘What's the last hymn next Sunday..?’ ‘Hundred and Sixty-six. Old Hundredth. You all know that.’ |