Fortieths

Word FORTIETHS
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What do we mean by fortieths?

The person or thing in the fortieth position.

One of forty equal parts of a whole.

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The word "fortieths" in example sentences

The reference at Thucydides 8.101.1 to coins of Chios called “fortieths” may also refer to a small denomination, but we lack other evidence to clarify this obscure term. ❋ Robert B. Strassler (2003)

It will hardly be said to reach us, the book with forty-man power in it, until it has been broken up into fortieths of itself. ❋ Gerald Stanley Lee (1903)

On one fortieth of the shares much higher interest was to be paid than on the other thirty-nine fortieths. ❋ Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1829)

I did everything from weddings to fortieths to corporate dinners handling budgets as big as ❋ Unknown (2010)

AH the villages in this vicinity belong to the bifhop of Tortofa, who claims and ex - ercifes a temporal dominion, appointing the magiftrates, and receiving three thirty - fevenths of their wheat, barley, and oil, with three-fortieths of their wine. ❋ Unknown (1792)

All the villages in tliis vicinity belong to the bifhop of Tortofa, who claims and ex - ercifcs a temporal dominion, appointing the magiftrates, and receiving three thirty - fevenths of their wheat, barley, and oil, with three-fortieths of their wine. ❋ Unknown (1791)

Thucydides’ word for these “pieces of money” is tessarakontas, literally, “a fortieth”; but scholars are not sure what these were “fortieths” of, or what three of them amounted to. ❋ Robert B. Strassler (2003)

Then he found out about "voting" and "non-voting; the shares coming to him were eighteen-fortieths of the voting shares; the remainder was split between relatives and non-relatives. ❋ Heinlein, Robert A. (1957)

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