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Definition of Forty-second
1. Adjective. The ordinal number of forty-two in counting order.
Definition of Forty-second
1. Numeral. (ordinal) The ordinal form of the number forty-two, describing a person or thing in position number 42 of a sequence. ¹
2. Noun. (fractional) One of forty-two equal parts of a whole. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Forty-second
Literary usage of Forty-second
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Indian Affairs: Laws and Treatiesby United States, Charles Joseph Kappler by United States, Charles Joseph Kappler (1904)
"... second session 127-128 Acts of Forty-first Congress, third session 128-130
Acts of forty-second Congress, first session 131-140 Acts of forty-second ..."
2. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1873)
"The forty-second had soon to exchange tho fruit-trees and plains of Flanders ...
The forty-second instantly attacked it front and rear, and drove the enemy ..."
3. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1866)
"The Forty-eighth and forty-second Virginia had been, during the day, on picket
on the Blackburn's Ford and Union Mill road. Marching by the Sudley road, ..."
4. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1892)
"The forty-second fiscal year closed June 30, 1891, and the following are the
expenditures for the year: Janitor 75 Library $275 95 Stenographer 00 Rent 1933 ..."
5. Twenty Years of Congress: From Lincoln to Garfield ; with a Review of the by James Gillespie Blaine (1884)
"THEIR JUSTICE AND MAGNANIMITY. opening of the forty-second Congress, on the 4th
of March, _1_ 1871, was disfigured by an act of grave injustice committed by ..."
6. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"... IN THE forty-second YEAR OF GEORGE III. Waterhouse v. Sir Richard King, Bart.
2 East, 507. July 2, 1802. An appointment by the Lords of the Admiralty of ..."
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