Thirteenth
['θɜːtiːnθ] or ['θɝtinθ]
Definition
(noun.) position 13 in a countable series of things.
(adj.) coming next after the twelfth in position .
Editor: Lucius--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Next in order after the twelfth; the third after the tenth; -- the ordinal of thirteen; as, the thirteenth day of the month.
(a.) Constituting or being one of thirteen equal parts into which anything is divided.
(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by thirteen; one of thirteen equal parts into which anything is divided.
(n.) The next in order after the twelfth.
(n.) The interval comprising an octave and a sixth.
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Examples
- The church in the thirteenth century was extending its legal power in the world, and losing its grip upon men's consciences. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Nevertheless, his intrepid adversary prepared to close for the thirteenth time. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- By the thirteenth century the Hansa merchants were already sailing regularly from Bergen across the grey cold seas to the Northmen in Iceland. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- If we measure the column in the tube, we find its height is about one thirteenth of 34 feet or 30 inches, exactly what we should expect. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Already in the thirteenth century we have seen Pope Gregory IX and the Emperor Frederick II engaging in a violent public controversy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Emperor Frederick II is a very convenient example of the sort of doubter and rebel the thirteenth century could produce. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Artesian wells appear to have first been known in Europe in the province of Artois, France, in the thirteenth century. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It is only in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries that we find the Nordic intelligence struggling through again to expression. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- So that while the eleventh century was a century of ignorant and confiding men, the thirteenth was an age of knowing and disillusioned men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Before the thirteenth century the penalty of death had been inflicted but rarely upon heretics and unbelievers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Sometimes a thirteenth spoon was added, called the Master spoon, because it bore the figure of Christ. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This was already beginning in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries with the appearance of the Black and Grey Friars (chap. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In the beginning of the thirteenth century there were a number of separate and discordant Moslem states in Western Asia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- All the craft and policy of the Popes of the thirteenth century to oust the Emperor from Italy had only served to let in the French to replace him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Weight clocks had been in use as t ime-measurers since the thirteenth century, but they were, as we have seen, difficult to control and otherwise unreliable. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
Editor: Maynard