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Definition of Eighty-five
1. Adjective. Being five more than eighty.
Definition of Eighty-five
1. Cardinal numeral. The cardinal number immediately following eighty-four and preceding eighty-six. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eighty-five
Literary usage of Eighty-five
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1896)
"1803, the case of a man, aged eighty-five years, who presented the usual symptoms
of volvulus. There had been complete obstruction for a week. ..."
2. Irish Literature by Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche (1904)
"From ' eighty-five Years of Irish History.' O'Connell, on the evening of his
incarceration, had exclaimed : '' Thank God, I am in jail for Ireland! ..."
3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN, Sidney Lee (1888)
"... 1741, pp.552, illustrated by eighty-five plates ; and he prepared at least
two hundred and fifty coloured drawings of fungi, which, however, ..."
4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1889)
"445 (27: 206). nue and along the line of said lot three (3), about eighty-five (85)
feet, to intersect a lino drawn due north from the point of beginning, ..."
5. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1868)
"Both columns converged in this place, where they arrived last night The rebels
destroyed twenty-eight thousand bales of cotton at Selma, and eighty-five ..."
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