| 单词 | two-and-thirty |
| 释义 | > as lemmastwo-and-thirty a. Added to multiples of ten, as two-and-thirty, now usually thirty-two; a hundred and two. So formerly (now rarely) with the ordinals, as two-and-fiftieth (now almost always fifty-second). †two-and-thirty, a pip out see pip n.3 1b. two-and-twentieth (Music), a note 22 diatonic degrees (= 3 octaves) above or below a given note (both notes being reckoned); hence, an interval of 3 octaves; spec. an organ stop formerly used, sounding 3 octaves above the normal pitch. (Now twenty-second n.) ΚΠ c893 tr. Orosius Hist. vi. ii. §1 Þara twa & twentigra monna. a900 Old Eng. Martyrol. 29 On þone twa & twentigðan dæg. OE Rule St. Benet (Corpus Cambr.) xiii. 37 Se twa and feowertigeða sealm. c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 47 On þe two and þrittuðe dai. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 11861 To & tuenti kniȝtes. c1380 Antecrist in Todd 3 Treat. Wyclif 121 In þe two and þritti boke. 1488–92 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 80 Sex score twa bedis and a knop. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 2747 There were twenty and too. 1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 201 The two and twentieth Chapter. 1613 in C. Beswick Organs Worcester Cathedral (2004) In the chaire organ 1 flute of wood, 1 two and twentith of mettal. a1777 S. Foote Devil upon Two Sticks (1778) iii. 60 The two-and-fiftieth part of a scruple. 1896 ‘Iota’ Quaker Grandmother 137 Two-and-thirty last March. < as lemmas |
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