XXVIIth

English

Etymology

From XXVII (Roman numeral representing twenty-seven) +‎ -th.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: XXVIIth

Adjective

XXVIIth (not comparable)

1. 27th; Abbreviation of twenty-seventh.
   • 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:

     ‡ The XXVIIth Canon requires, the Miniſter never wittingly to adminiſter the Communion to any, but to ſuch as kneel.

   • 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:

      […], whence it is evident, that the general ſolution to the XXVIIth Problem, does not include the particular caſe propoſed.

   • 1808, Journal of the House of Representatives, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston: Adams and Rhoades:

     (DURING THE FIRST SESSION OF THE XXVIIth GENERAL COURT.)

   • 1834, Edward Smedley, History of the Reformed Religion in France, volume III, New-York: Harper & Brothers, page 180:

     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.

   • 1964, XXVIIth International Conference on Public Education, 1964:

     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.

   • 1972, The Egyptian and Egyptianizing Monuments of Imperial Rome, page 113:

     Naples, Museo Nazionale, no. 1068. Black “basalt”. H.: 0.98 m. (?) XXVIIth Dynasty. Inscribed. Kneeling statue.

   • 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:

     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.

   • 1987, National Security Issues of the USSR, →ISBN, page 163:

     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.

   • 2011 August 4, Rodric Braithwaite, Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 274:

     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.

Usage notes

Used in the titles of conferences.

Synonyms

• 27th
• twenty-seventh

See also

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