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Definition of Eightieths
1. eightieth [n] - See also: eightieth
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eightieths
Literary usage of Eightieths
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Educational Reform: Essays and Addresses by Charles William Eliot (1901)
"English has from eleven to seventeen eightieths on the different programmes of
the Committee of Ten. The largest amount of time devoted to it on any one ..."
2. The History of Political Parties in the Province of New York, 1760-1776 by Carl Lotus Becker (1904)
"eightieths of the par amount of such common stock owned of record by such stockholder.
After the sale and delivery to the Trust Company of such of said ..."
3. Elements of Arithmetic by Horace Mann, Pliny Earle Chase (1851)
"How many quarters in 7 eightieths of a ton? ... In 140 eightieths ? 32. In Troy
weight, a grain is one twenty-fourth of a pennyweight. ..."
4. Dubbs' Complete Mental Arithmetic: A Volume of Carefully Graded Exercises by Eugene L. Dubbs (1893)
"Reduce f to eightieths; ... to eightieths. 22. Reduce Д to eighty-fourths; T9T
to eighty- fourths. 23. ..."
5. Eight Years of Tory Government, 1895-1903: Home Affairs; a Handbook for the by Augustine Birrell (1903)
"... the Government opposed the claim, maintaining that eleven-eightieths of the
sum paid to England was the proper equivalent to be paid to Scotland, ..."
6. Archer's Law and Practice in Oil and Gas Cases: Embracing an Analysis of All by V. B. Archer (1911)
"... and to Loomis five- eightieths, and to Snyder and Mellon the seven eighths
working interest. Later, oil was discovered on the 46 ..."
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