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- adjective Obsolete spelling of
third .
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Examples
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London: The thirde was the Minion: The fourth was the Ascension.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The thirde is a mixt Fable so called, bicause in it bothe man hauyng reason, and a beaste wantyng reason, or any o - ther thing wanting life, is ioyned with it, as for the example, of the fable of the woodes and the housebandman, of whom
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The thirde is a mixt, the whiche setteth forthe, bothe the maners and the affection, as how, and after what sorte, A - chilles spake vpon Patroclus, he beyng dedde, when for his sake, he determined to fight: the determinacion of hym she - weth the maner.
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The thirde is a _Chria_ mixt, bothe _verball_ and notyng the facte, as Diogenes seyng a boie wanton & dissolute, did strike his teacher with a staffe, vtteryng these woordes: why dooest thou teache thy scholer so dissolutlie.
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Of the girls who went "a-maying," Stubbs in his 1585 Anatomie of Abuses says, "scarcely a thirde parte of them returned home againe undefiled."
Bel's Fire and Little Green Men Joanna Waugh 2009
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Of the girls who went "a-maying," Stubbs in his 1585 Anatomie of Abuses says, "scarcely a thirde parte of them returned home againe undefiled."
Archive 2009-05-01 Joanna Waugh 2009
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Their thirde sorte of horsemen is deuided into Charippos Spahiglauos, and
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The fiueth, to haue risen agayne the thirde daye fro the deade.
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And the thirde the menne of warre: with whom the catteile maisters or brieders be coupled.
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The nobilitie hath the thirde place of dignitie, and the pencionaries aforesaid, the fourthe.
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