twenty-three

Definitions

The cardinal number immediately following twenty-two and preceding twenty-four; 23.

Equivalents

Examples

“Reſolved, &c. That this Houſe doth accept⟳ of the Sum of One hundred Twenty-three Pounds of James Whitewick, of Coventry in the County of Warwick, Gentleman; his Delinguency being, That he went and reſided in the Gariſons held againſt the Parliament: Submitted before December 1645: His Eſtate, per Annum, Sixty Pounds; Perſonal Eſstate, Thirty Pounds: For which the Fine, at a Tenth, is One hundred Twenty-three Pounds.”

“Admiral Rooke, with twenty-three Men of War, having the Turky Fleet under his Convoy, was attacked off Cape St. Vincent by the whole French Fleet, under the Command of Admiral Tourville; twelve Engliſh and Dutch Men of War, and above four-ſcore Merchant-men, were taken or deſtroyed by the French.”

“Maryland has exported nearly eight times as much as Connecticut; above six times as much as Rhode Island; twenty-three times as much as New Hampshire; almost eighty times as much as Vermont; and almost three times as much as the four minor states.”

“Avignon was twenty-three kilometres away, on the second-class road N 570. We could be there in about half an hour. And we were, without stopping to admire any antiquities.”

“Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother's name⟳ was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.”

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