Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In the seventh place.
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- adverb In the seventh place.
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- adverb In the
seventh place; seventh in a row.
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- adverb in the seventh place
Etymologies
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Examples
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Then the good dominie went back to his "seventhly," and the congregation to their slumbers, while the restless young Stephanus traced with his finger-nail upon the cover of his psalm-book the profile of his highly respected guardian, General Ten Broek, nodding solemnly in the magistrate's pew.
Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times Elbridge Streeter Brooks 1874
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The good dominie's "seventhly" came to a sudden stop as the tinkle of the deacon's collection-bell fell upon the ears of the slumbering congregation.
Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times Elbridge Streeter Brooks 1874
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"seventhly" for two long hours father pondered over the uncertainties of earthly life, and that on this occasion he delivered the most effective sermon of his pastoral career.
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For seventhly he fleas himself, that he may not be interrupted upon the beat.
The WritingYA Weblog: Poetry Friday: A Divine Madness tanita davis 2007
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For seventhly he fleas himself, that he may not be interrupted upon the beat.
Archive 2007-10-01 a. fortis 2007
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Investigation, or of what should be inquired first and what last; sixthly, of the Limits of Investigation, or a synopsis of all natures in the universe; seventhly, of the
The New Organon 2005
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Sunday pushing a discourse -- which was good up to the "fourthly" -- into the "seventhly."
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Various
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We have now to consider the sacrament of the Eucharist; and first of all we treat of the sacrament itself; secondly, of its matter; thirdly, of its form; fourthly, of its effects; fifthly, of the recipients of this sacrament; sixthly, of the minister; seventhly, of the rite.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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With regard to Mr Jamieson he was compelled, in the end, to resort to tactics: he omitted to announce the Sunday before that his venerable neighbour would preach, and the congregation, outwitted, had no resource but to sustain the beard-wagging old gentleman through seventhly to the finish.
The Imperialist Sara Jeannette Duncan
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"And this brings me to fifthly and sixthly and seventhly -- my hopes, and dreams, and plans, sir -- are they all to be broken, spoiled, ruined by your hatefully selfish whims, sir -- hush, not a word!"
The Amateur Gentleman Jeffery Farnol 1915
mollusque commented on the word seventhly
It was thinly dressed in fluttering paper covers, and was so thick and so lightly bound that it had a tendency to divide its material substance into parts, like the seventhlies and eighthlies of an old-fashioned sermon.
--Sarah Orne Jewett, 1884, A Country Doctor
January 28, 2010