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Definition of Forty-six
1. Adjective. Being six more than forty.
Definition of Forty-six
1. Cardinal numeral. The cardinal number immediately following forty-five and preceding forty-seven. ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Forty-six
Literary usage of Forty-six
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.) (1863)
"Clinical Report on Hydro-Peritoneum, based on an analysis of forty-six cases.
By AUSTIN FLINT, 31. D., Prof, of the Principles and Practice of Medicine in ..."
2. Pennsylvania Archives by Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, Pennsylvania State Library (1902)
"Ladner had Four hundred and forty six thousand six hundred and fifty four ...
Abraham H. Vandling had Rour hundred and forty six thousand five hundred and ..."
3. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"The enemy, La Desiree, of six guns and forty-six men, had three killed and fifteen
badly wounded.i " Captain Dickson's account of the destruction of the ..."
4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1894)
"GENTLEMEN :—I have to present to-day a table of results gathered from examination
of the blood in about forty-six cases, all of chronic diseases and divided ..."
5. Colonial Records of Pennsylvania by Samuel Hazard (1853)
"... north twenty-nine degrees west ten perches and eight- tenths of a perch, north
fifty-lour degrees and one-quarter west forty-six perches, ..."
6. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"The clergy at that time consisted of a bishop, forty-six presbyters, seven deacons,
as many subdeacons, ..."