| 单词 | twelve eve |
| 释义 | > as lemmasTwelve eve 3. Used for the ordinal twelfth adj. and n.; in quot. a1691 Twelve eve = Twelfth-eve n. Obsolete (exc. after the noun in such expressions as page twelve, chapter twelve, etc.).See also twelfth adj. 1a γ; some of the quots. there may properly belong here. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [adjective] > twelve > twelfth twelftha900 twelve1430 dozenth1710 society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Twelfth Night (5 January) > [noun] Twelfth-nightc900 Twelfth-evec1000 uphali(day) even1506 Twelve evea1691 1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes ix. xiv. (Bodl. 263) 419/2 The twelue in noumbre Callid Pope Iohn. 1586 W. Webbe Disc. Eng. Poetrie sig. G.i Transpose anie of those feete..and make short either the two, foure, sixe, eight, tenne, twelue sillable, and it will..fall out very absurdly. 1660 tr. H. Blum Bk. Five Collumnes Archit. (new ed.) B c Within that twelve part. a1691 H. Piers Chorogr. Descr. W.-Meath in C. Vallancey Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis (1770) I. i. 124 On Twelve Eve in Christmas. < as lemmas |
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