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Definition of Eighty-three
1. Adjective. Being three more than eighty.
Definition of Eighty-three
1. Cardinal numeral. The cardinal number immediately following eighty-two and preceding eighty-four. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eighty-three
Literary usage of Eighty-three
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1889)
"... Eighteen Hundred and Eighty-Three, and for Other Purposes," it was provided "that
the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated for the ..."
2. Colonial Records of Pennsylvania by Samuel Hazard (1853)
"tenths, north eighty-seven degrees, west forty-five perches and five- tenths of
a perch, south eighty-three degrees, west forty-three perches aud ..."
3. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1867)
"The aggregate strength of the brigade, including the battery, on the morning of
the nineteenth, was seventeen hundred and eighty-three. ..."
4. The Life and Writings of Major Jack Downing [pseud.] of Downingville: Away by Seba] [Smith (1834)
"I. Being the genuine letter of old Mr Zophar Downing, ' amost eighty-three yere
old. ... evidence of having been written by a person eighty'three years ol&. ..."
5. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"... of Holyoke, Massachusetts, "who claims to have transferred to the back ol a
postal card ten thousand two hundred and eighty-three words. ..."
6. The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut [1636-1776] by Connecticut, Connecticut General Assembly, James Hammond Trumbull, Charles Jeremy Hoadly, Council of Safety (Conn.). (1876)
"... that the sum of eleven hundred eighty-three pounds eighteen shillings and five
pence shall be abated out of the said sum mentioned in said record, ..."
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