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nineteenth, a. and n.|naɪnˈtiːnθ, ˈnaɪntiːnθ|
Forms: α. 1 niᵹonteoða, -þe, etc., 3 nien-, nyenteþe, 5 -tethe. β. 4 nientend, 5 nyntende, -tenth, nintenth, 6 nynetenth, 6– nineteenth.
[OE. niᵹontéoða = OFris. niuguntinda, MDu. (and Du.) negentiende, MHG. niunzehende (G. neunzehnte), ON. nítjándi (Sw. nittonde, Da. nittende): see nineteen a. (and n.) and -th1.]
The ordinal numeral corresponding to the cardinal nineteen.
A. adj.
1. In concord with n. expressed, or ellipt.
In quot. 1951 used in a quasi-adj. phr.
αa900O.E. Martyrol. 24 On þone niᵹonteoðan dæᵹ þæs monðes. Ibid. 98 On þone nyᵹenteᵹðan dæᵹ. c900O.E. Chron. (Parker MS.) an. 855 He ricsode niᵹon teoþe healf ᵹear. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 5116 Þe nyenteþe day of aueryl. Ibid. 8699 In þe nienteþe ȝere of is elde. c1420Chron. Vilod. 3820 Of kyng Knowde þe nyentethe ȝere.
βc1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 133 In his nientend ȝere of his regalte. 1382Wyclif 2 Kings xxv. 8 It is the nyntenthe ȝeer of the kyng of Babiloyne. 1447O. Bokenham Seyntys (Roxb.) 95 Petyr the nyntende pope. 1579Fulke Heskins' Parl. 195 The nineteenth Chapter proceedeth vpon the same text. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. Wks. 1792 III. 192 In the nineteenth century. 1824L. Murray Eng. Gram. (ed. 5) I. 135 See..the notes on the nineteenth rule of Syntax. 1836Hood (title) Song for the Nineteenth. 1886Morley Eng. Lit. (ed. 12) Pref., Former Editions..touched very lightly on the Literature of the Nineteenth Century.
Comb.1872W. F. Butler Gt. Lone Land (ed. 2) xvi. 241 Terrible deeds..never perhaps more sickening than now in the full blaze of nineteenth-century civilization. 1879Temple Bar Sept. 44 Glowering at each other in civil nineteenth-century fashion. 1923J. W. Harvey tr. Otto's Idea of Holy p. vii, A fair expression of the limitations and bias of the nineteenth-century mind. 1951C. P. Snow Masters xxxiv. 272 His views were eccentric for an old man, but his manners had stayed gentle and nineteenth century. 1956R. C. Zaehner in A. Pryce-Jones New Outl. Mod. Knowledge 65 Nineteenth-century optimism, then, is comparable to Buddhism in the emphasis it lays on individual effort in the battle for salvation.
2. the nineteenth hole: the bar-room in a golf club-house. Also ellipt. and in extended use. slang (orig. U.S.).
1901W. G. van T. Sutphen (title) The nineteenth hole, being tales of the fair green. 1926Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 11 July 4/3 The immeasurable distance of the nineteenth hole on standard courses is altogether beyond our physical capacity on these hot and golden Summer days. 1928Daily Express 3 Jan. 9/2 Most courses have been completely unplayable, except at the nineteenth hole. 1948‘J. Tey’ Franchise Affair i. 7 A good chap who played a very steady game and occasionally, when it came to the nineteenth, expanded into mild indiscretions. 1956[see ear-bash v.]. 1971Good Food Guide 317 The Golf Tavern Nineteenth Hole.
B. n.
a. A nineteenth part.
b. Mus. The interval of two octaves and a fifth.
1597Morley Introd. Mus. 71 A vnison, a fift,..a fifteenth, a nineteenth, and so forth. 1609Douland Ornith. Microl. 79 A nineteenth, which is equal to a fift, and a twelfth.
Hence nineˈteenthly adv., in the nineteenth place; n. the nineteenth head of a sermon.
1681H. More Exp. Dan. App. iii. 304 Nineteenthly, The Curious may be prone to enquire why, etc. 1815Scott Paul's Lett. (1839) 287 In the Nineteenthly of an afternoon's sermon. 1851Whittier To Schoolmaster 124 As the long nineteenthlies poured Downward from the sounding-board. |