Word Finder - nineteenth

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The person or thing in the nineteenth position.

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One of nineteen equal parts of a whole.

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The ordinal form of the number nineteen.

In this service he remained till his nineteenth year.

Caetani indeed (Nineteenth Century and After, 1908) attributes the economic decadence of the Roman Campagna to the existence of free trade throughout the Roman empire.

Elijah is canonized both in the Greek and in the Latin Churches, his festival being kept in both on the 10th July - the date of his ascension in the nineteenth year of Jehoshaphat, according to Cornelius a Lapide.

Bullock, " Competitive Examinations in China " (Nineteenth Century, July 1894); and Etienne Zi, Pratique des examens litteraires en Chine (Shanghai, 1894).

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).

Much has been done, by Mignet (Antonio Perez et Philippe II., 1845; 4th ed., 1874) and by Froude (" An Unsolved Historical Riddle," Nineteenth Cent., 1883) among others, towards the elucidation of various difficult points in Perez's somewhat perplexing story.

Even if the ninth book is rejected (as Grote proposed), there remain the speeches of the first, sixteenth and nineteenth books.

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.

A finely illustrated book, Finland in the Nineteenth Century, by various Finnish writers, gives an excellent account of the country; also Reuter's Finlandia, a very complete work with an exhaustive bibliography.

But we cannot conclude our brief survey of the national literature of Persia without calling attention to the rise of the drama, which has only sprung up in the beginning of The Drama the nineteenth century.

Of all the nasks one only, the nineteenth, has come down on us intact - the Vendidad.

Of the fifteenth, seventeenth and nineteenth Yashts the few useful copies that we possess are derived from a single MS. of the year 1591 A.D.

Besides several essays in the Nineteenth Century, Dr Adler has written extensively on topics of Anglo-Jewish History and published two volumes of sermons.

In 1848, after a visit to Italy, he published Italy in the Nineteenth Century; and in 1870 he collected and republished some papers contributed many years before to periodicals, under the title Early Sketches of Eminent Persons.

There was little art or inspiration in his boyish verse, but in his nineteenth year an older sister thought a specimen of it good enough for submission to the Free Press, a weekly paper which William Lloyd Garrison, the future emancipationist, had started in the town of Newburyport.

The rank of Nebraska among the states of the Union in 1900 in population, in value of agricultural products, and in value of manufactured products, was respectively twenty-seventh, tenth and nineteenth.

The accounts of the fertility of the Connecticut valley were among the causes leading to the English colonization, and until the middle of the nineteenth century agriculture was the principal occupation.

They are described in some detail in the reports of nineteenth and twentieth century anthropologists.

Agrippa's contribution is briefly discussed below and his theories received a new lease of life in nineteenth century astrology and occultism.

At the end of nineteenth century a large number of Poles became involved in the struggle against Nicholas II and the Russian autocracy.

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

Time for tea Later in the nineteenth century then, going out to a tea shop became a popular pastime for women.

In the early nineteenth century, Spanish power went into rapid decline.

There were plans for wholesale demolition of the terraced streets built in the nineteenth century.

This is very disputable, certainly in view of much of the nineteenth literature that still continues to be read.

Commercial salmon fishers dominated inland waters until Nineteenth century landowners realized they could make more money from anglers.

The small harbor was built in the nineteenth century for the herring fishery.

Cambridge Burnt Cream came to the Trinity College kitchens by way of an enthusiastic nineteenth century academic gastronome.

The pattern of tribal grouping in Gabon was severely disrupted by slave raiding which continued well into the nineteenth century.

A grate of mid to late nineteenth century now occupies the former hearth.

Such was the famous reply given by the nineteenth century artist James McNeil Whistler to what seemed to him like a rather impertinent question.

Why did barricades become a feature of urban insurrection uniquely in the nineteenth century?

Her first book was on Sade and materialism (2002 ); she is now working on materialism in the nineteenth century.

By the early nineteenth century cast-iron mileposts became common.

Camborne was a prosperous boom town in the nineteenth century, due to the tin mining industry.

It presents nineteenth century comic strips with decidedly modern punchlines.

Their design set out to avoid the monotony of the uniform grid plans of the nineteenth century housing.

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

Thomas was the great-grandfather of Hugh Casson and he had a considerable influence on organ-building in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Possibly it was late nineteenth century or early twentieth.

Redruth's recently restored railroad station is early nineteenth century.

Rail Travel in the 19th Century In the mid-to-late nineteenth century, the easiest and quickest way to travel was by rail.

The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was the most influential occult group to emerge from the end of the nineteenth century occult revival.

Peter the Great abolished the patriarchate, and by the nineteenth century the Procurator of the Holy Synod was effectively a government minister.

The Swedish Royal Court Orchestra employed an outstanding quartet of wind players at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

This ideology, I argue, descends from the very nineteenth century scholarship that it now finds replete with fantasies.

With other Caucasian tribes they fiercely resisted Russian conquest in the nineteenth century.

Indeed, the nineteenth century topography is of village in a meadow ascending a lofty sandstone ridge which has extensive views.

To what extent did nineteenth century romanticism make Freudian psychoanalysis possible?

Graham Barber has thoroughly scrutinized the large surviving repertoire of the nineteenth century and selected these works as being fully worthy of resurrection.