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The person or thing in the eighteenth position.

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One of eighteen equal parts of a whole.

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A party to celebrate an eighteenth birthday.

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The ordinal form of the number eighteen.

Christina assumed the sceptre in her eighteenth year (Dec. 8, 1644).

At the end of the eighteenth century there were a couple of dozen men in Paris who began to talk about all men being free and equal.

The reign of Josiah is important for the biblical account of the great religious reforms which began in his eighteenth year, when he manifested interest in the repair of the Temple at Jerusalem.

He was educated for a business career, but in his eighteenth year entered the Church, joining the Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Mary (also known as the Picpus Congregation), and taking Damien as his name in religion.

At the time he sent it to Grimald Walafrid had, as he himself tells us, hardly passed his eighteenth year, and he begs his correspondent to revise his verses, because, "as it is not lawful for a monk to hide anything from his abbot," he fears he may be beaten with deserved stripes.

His father died when he was in his eighteenth year, and he was indebted for his university education to one of the members of his father's family.

Another edition, containing the eighteenth book and a fragment of the nineteenth, was published by Ferrerius, who has added an appendix of thirtyfive pages (Paris, 1574).

On Paley as a theologian and philosopher, see Leslie Stephen, English Thought in the Eighteenth Century, i.

One of the most characteristic works of Cormenin is the Livre des orateurs, a series of brilliant studies of the principal parliamentary orators of the restoration and the monarchy of July, the first edition of which appeared in 1838, and the eighteenth in 1860.

In the Phoenician alphabet a sibilant Zade (Tzaddi) stands between q and p. Hence Q is the nineteenth letter in the Phoenician alphabet, the eighteenth in the Greek numerical alphabet, which alone contains it, the sixteenth (owing to the omission of 8 and E) in the Latin, and (from the addition of J) the seventeenth in the English alphabet.

See Warwick Wroth, London Pleasure Gardens of the Eighteenth Century (London, 1896).

On the 1st of November 1796, in accordance with the will of his father, Gustavus IV., now in his eighteenth year, took the government into his own hands.

Luisa Sigea was both an orientalist and a Latin poetess, while Publia Hortensia de Castro, after a course of humanities, philosophy and theology, defended theses at Evora in her eighteenth year.

In 1657, on his eighteenth birthday, he preached his first sermon; in the same year he went to visit his eldest brother in Dublin, and studied there at Trinity College, where he graduated M.A.

In size Michigan ranks eighteenth among the states of the Union, its total area being 57,9 80 sq.

In the Old Town still remain a few specimens of eighteenth century architecture, including several old-fashioned post-houses, which used to furnish entertainment for travellers starting for the Middle West by way of the old Cumberland Road beginning at Fort Cumberland, and from Baltimore to Fort Cumberland by a much older turnpike.

Rosa exhibits the embalmed body of that saint, a native of Viterbo, who died in her eighteenth year, after working various miracles and having distinguished herself by her invectives against Frederick II.

A few years after the union of Kalmar, Eric, now in his eighteenth year, was declared of age and homage was rendered to him in all his three kingdoms, but during her lifetime Margaret was the real ruler of Scandinavia.

But he was also the severe and capable administrator who during years of hard work at the admiralty did more than any other to raise the navy from the state of corruption and indiscipline into which it had fallen during the first half of the eighteenth century.

From 1723 to 1743 came the mealy- eighteenth mouthed despotism of Cardinal Fleury, and his century.

Having had personal experience of the unremunerative character both of music and of mathematics, he desired that his son should apply himself to the cultivation of medicine, and, not without some straining of his slender resources, placed him, before he had completed his eighteenth year, at the university of Pisa.

In the period of the Egyptian suzerainty over Palestine in the eighteenth dynasty Damascus (whose name frequently appears in the Tell el-Amarna tablets) was capital of the small province of Ubi.

The average user is strangely absent, like the laborer in eighteenth century landscape painting.

Eighteenth century redware sherds and a fragment of Spanish amphora have been recovered from the foreshore in this area.

The great west window and the rose window date from the early eighteenth century and remarkably in 1965 the Abbey celebrated its 900th anniversary.

During the eighteenth century, wine bottles continued to dominate the glass assemblage, with the exception of window glass.

We were filmed making Eighteenth Dynasty core formed glass for the program on Egypt, and mold blown circus beakers for the Roman program.

Curtis was coming up the eighteenth, needing a birdie for a play-off.

This flat brass candlestick is a typically eighteenth century design, as candlesticks became taller during the nineteenth century.

Many copies were made by European ceramists in the eighteenth century.

Death is also a preoccupation of eighteenth century classicism.

On the opposite bank of the river was a classical colonnade, which was washed away in the floods of the late eighteenth century.

In the eighteenth century, pigeon were very much a part of classic British cookery.

The poem is in the form of rhyming pentameter couplets, sometimes called heroic couplets, the favorite poetic form of the eighteenth century.

Secret societies emerged in Ireland in the eighteenth century, using direct action to express agrarian discontent.

Did you know, for example, that eighteenth century dramatists routinely changed his endings because they were too tragic?

Even the two volumes which include extant educationists contain 29 subjects born in the eighteenth century and only 18 from the twentieth.

In the eighteenth century the Newtonian universe was rapidly encroaching.

The tower is an eighteenth century folly built in an effort to raise the height of the hill to 1000ft.

To the eighteenth century gentry MP his country was much more his county than England.

During the eighteenth century hinged two piece molds were introduced, allowing the glassmaker to exert greater control over the shaping of the bottle.

The gardens are renowned for their rare and unusual trees collected by intrepid plant hunters during the Eighteenth Century.

Collections include autograph manuscripts of composers from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries.

Materialism preceded Marxism by more than two thousand years and in the eighteenth century materialism preceded Marxism by more than two thousand years and in the eighteenth century materialism was the standpoint of the rising bourgeoisie.

Locating the historic nation in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Mac Laughlin also examines the specificities of minority nationalisms in the nineteenth century.

He then studied at Cardiff University for an MA in Eighteenth Century English Music and, in particular, English oratorio of the period.

A short novel, written as an eighteenth century pastiche.

The Gorsedd, as we know it today, was founded by a late eighteenth century Welsh polymath called Edward Williams.

Rescued by the Trust in 1986, it is in its eighteenth year of painstaking restoration.

Artistic Director, Barrie Rutter, takes as his inspiration the cartoons and caricatures of celebrated eighteenth century satirist, James Gillray.