XXVIIth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From XXVII (Roman numeral representing twenty-seven) + -th (ordinal suffix).
Senses: examples: text: ‡ The XXVIIth Canon requires, the Miniſter never wittingly to adminiſter the Communion to any, but to ſuch as kneel.
ref: 1746, The Dissenting Gentleman’s Answer To the Reverend Mr. White’s Three Letters; In Which A Separation from the Establishment is fully justified; The Charge of Schism is refuted and retorted; And the Church of England and the Church of Jesus Christ, are impartially compared, and set in Contrast, and found to be Constitutions of a quite Different Nature, London: R. Hett, page 15:
text: […], whence it is evident, that the general ſolution to the XXVIIth Problem, does not include the particular caſe propoſed.
ref: 1764, Samuel Clark, An Easy Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Mechanics; Containing a Variety of Curious and Important Problems Investigated with the greatest Facility by the Application of One General Property of the Center of Gravity Without having Recourse to the Composition and Resolution of Forces, London: Nourse, John, page viii:
text: (DURING THE FIRST SESSION OF THE XXVIIth GENERAL COURT.)
ref: 1808, Journal of the House of Representatives, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston: Adams and Rhoades:
text: Either the court was reluctant to grant, or the Huguenots were careless in requesting, a new ecclesiastical assembly; and six years elapsed after the meeting at Charenton before another National Synod, the XXVIIth, was convened at Alençon.
ref: 1834, Edward Smedley, History of the Reformed Religion in France, volume III, New-York: Harper & Brothers, page 180:
text: After all that has been said and written about illiteracy, one may well ask whether it was appropriate to include this subject, so much discussed elsewhere, in the agenda of the XXVIIth International Conference on Public Education.
ref: 1964, XXVIIth International Conference on Public Education, 1964:
text: Naples, Museo Nazionale, no. 1068. Black “basalt”. H.: 0.98 m. (?) XXVIIth Dynasty. Inscribed. Kneeling statue.
ref: 1972, The Egyptian and Egyptianizing Monuments of Imperial Rome, page 113:
text: With the aims of the revision of data on cargo shipping between Danube ports, the XXVIIth Session authorized the Commission to collect from the competent bodies of the Danube coastal states information on the methods applied, terminology and definitions related to international shipping.
ref: 1981, Vitali V. Serebriakov, transl., International Marine Organizations: Essays on Structure and Activities, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, translation of original by Bekiashev, Kamil A. and Serebriakov, Vitali V., →ISBN, page 28:
text: Speaking at the XXVIIth Congress, Prime Minister Ryzkhov explained that two-thirds of overall productivity gains would have to be obtained through the introduction of up-to-date equipment.
ref: 1987, National Security Issues of the USSR, →ISBN, page 163:
text: Gorbachev went public in February 1986, when he told the delegates to the XXVIIth Party Congress in Moscow that the Soviet troops would leave once a political solution had been negotiated which left Afghanistan as a friendly, independent, and non-aligned state, with guarantees against external interference in its affairs.
ref: 2011 August 4, Rodric Braithwaite, Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 274:
glosses: Abbreviation of twenty-seventh; 27th.
Synonyms: 27th
twenty-seventh
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