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Definition of Thirteenth
1. Adjective. Coming next after the twelfth in position.
2. Noun. Position 13 in a countable series of things.
Definition of Thirteenth
1. a. Next in order after the twelfth; the third after the tenth; -- the ordinal of thirteen; as, the thirteenth day of the month.
2. n. The quotient of a unit divided by thirteen; one of thirteen equal parts into which anything is divided.
Definition of Thirteenth
1. Adjective. The ordinal form of the number thirteen. ¹
2. Noun. The person or thing in the thirteenth position. ¹
3. Noun. One of thirteen equal parts of a whole. ¹
4. Noun. (music) The interval comprising an octave and a sixth. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Thirteenth
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thirteenth
Literary usage of Thirteenth
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1891)
"And this transfer was thoroughly effected in the thirteenth century. ... But in
the thirteenth century it is not the monasteries but the universities that ..."
2. The Philosophical Review by Sage School of Philosophy, Cunningham, Gustavus Watts, 1881-, James Edwin Creighton, Frank Thilly, Jacob Gould Schurman (1897)
"Both these results have an obvious bearing on recent controversy with regard to
emotion. DAVID IRONS. Dante and Catholic Philosophy in the thirteenth ..."
3. History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages: Der Wendepunkt der Renaissance by Woldemar von Seidlitz, Ferdinand Gregorovius, Annie Hamilton (1906)
"IN the thirteenth century knowledge triumphed over barbarism and already assumed an
... The achievements of the intellect of the thirteenth century had ..."
4. View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages by Henry Hallam (1872)
"General Disaffection towards the See of Rome in the thirteenth Century — Progress
... This is the second instance which the thirteenth cen tury presents of ..."
5. Philosophy and Civilization in the Middle Ages by Maurice Wulf (1922)
"Influence of thirteenth century philosophical systems on later thought in the
... The unifying ideas of the thirteenth century had disappeared by the middle ..."