Definitions

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  • noun the cardinal number that is the sum of seventeen and one
  • adjective being one more than seventeen

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Examples

  • I, xlii; Pro Flacco ", xviii;" pro domo ", xxxiii;

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

  • In Russia, an employment service company, GogoJobs, uses GogoJobs.ru as its fetching Global English web address.xviii In Peru, some job seekers respond to advertisements for white-collar jobs offered by the Lima branch of the medical outfit Merck & Co., while others apply for far more dangerous jobs in nearby copper mines.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Even in countries like China, Japan, and Greece, where other words are used to capture related ideas for “banking,” the English word bank is freely recognized.xviii

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • What teaching, justice, predicting, index fingers, digits, and disks thrown by discus throwers all have in common is the idea that something or someone or some concept is being propelled in the right and best direction.xviii

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Even in countries like China, Japan, and Greece, where other words are used to capture related ideas for “banking,” the English word bank is freely recognized.xviii

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • What teaching, justice, predicting, index fingers, digits, and disks thrown by discus throwers all have in common is the idea that something or someone or some concept is being propelled in the right and best direction.xviii

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • In Russia, an employment service company, GogoJobs, uses GogoJobs.ru as its fetching Global English web address.xviii In Peru, some job seekers respond to advertisements for white-collar jobs offered by the Lima branch of the medical outfit Merck & Co., while others apply for far more dangerous jobs in nearby copper mines.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Nelson: None of us could have missed the statement in italics right at the beginning of the book, which Denton places in his introductory “Note to the Reader”: “The cosmos is a seamless unity which can be comprehended ultimately in its entirety by human reason and in which all phenomena, including life and evolution and the origin of man, are ultimately explicable in terms of natural processes” (p. xviii).

    Blast From the Past 2010

  • In addition to weight reduction, GM has been studied for its effects on constipation, serum cholesterol, (xvii) blood glucose, (xviii) blood pressure, (xix) and insulin resistance syndrome. (xx)

    Mark Hyman, MD: The Super Fiber That Controls Your Appetite and Blood Sugar 2010

  • In addition to weight reduction, GM has been studied for its effects on constipation, serum cholesterol, (xvii) blood glucose, (xviii) blood pressure, (xix) and insulin resistance syndrome. (xx)

    The Super Fiber That Controls Your Appetite and Blood Sugar 2010

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