How To Use Seventeenth In A Sentence
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We have a report that four unidentified persons have set up a rocket launcher two hundred yards west of seventeenth green.
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The upper part of the gablet over the centre doorway is of the seventeenth century, and bears the shield of Sir George Hay of Kinfauns, who rented the lands of the bishopric about the beginning of the seventeenth century, the crozier being added to the shield in connection with the lands of the see. [
Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys
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The cembalo was the favorite instrument in Italy during the seventeenth century, and in England it had a great currency under the name of harpsichord.
A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
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In the seventeenth century, the country was ruled by a monarch with a severe speech impediment and a fragile ego.
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The central theme of Sugar and Slaves is the rise of the big slave-owning sugar planters who completely dominated their island societies by the late seventeenth century.
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Louis Jordan, a historian with a strong interest in numismatic issues, has written what is undoubtedly the definitive history of Massachusetts' seventeenth-century mint.
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It was originally built of brick and rubblework, but since the restoration in the seventeenth century it has lost its primitive character.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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In the mid-seventeenth century, Spain began to import the bitter bark of cinchona trees from Peru and Ecuador as an antidote for malaria.
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From this latter practice arose their name — CONDOTTIERI; a term formidable all over Italy, for a period, which concluded in the earlier part of the seventeenth century, but of which it is not so easy to ascertain the commencement.
The Mysteries of Udolpho
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The clearest single advance in technique was the introduction in the mid seventeenth century of preservation in spirits of wine.
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Papist," but as far as I can tell, Pise is wrong: "Romanist" appears to be a familiar term of opprobrium in English polemic by the late seventeenth century.
Religion
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One of the last photographs of him shows him in his seventeenth-century timbered cottage, resting on a sofa beside the massive open fire chimney corner.
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Yet proverbs were objects of curiosity, collected on an encyclopedic scale by Italian virtuosi as well as other European scholars throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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[455] For the early divisions of verse and prose story were all Topsies, and simply "growed"; although the smaller romances of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century, and the larger of the latter date, were undoubtedly influenced by the Greek, it was more a case of general imitation than specific endeavour; the Sensibility school was very limited and chiefly attended to tricks of manner; and the "Romantic vague" was never vaguer than in the vast and rather formless, though magnificent and delightful, novel-work started by Nodier, Mérimée,
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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An ancient Russian icon in nielloed silver and one of these Christs in carved wood, executed in the seventeenth century by Bogard de Nancy, in an antique frame of gilded wood backed with velvet, were the only things that slightly relieved the banality of the decoration.
Là-bas
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A seventeenth- or eighteenth-century lithograph of a small town.
CHAMELEON
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In northern Italy and in France, south of the Loire, the main tenurial development of the seventeenth century was a massive extension of share-cropping, whereby landlords received rents as a fixed percentage of their tenants' crops.
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Watch out for furniture descriptions such as ‘seventeenth century style’ which means it is made in that style, but is usually a reproduction piece.
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MS. 1063, a seventeenth cent. transcript of Abbot John Lyle's chartulary compiled in 1471.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
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The victory of the Trinitarians in England in the latter half of the seventeenth century was not only as complete, but also as extraordinary, as St. Athanasius’s original triumph.
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The month in which my seventeenth birthday arrived I signed on before the mast on the Sophie Sutherland, a three-topmast schooner bound on a seven-months 'seal-hunting cruise to the coast of Japan.
That Dead Men Rise Up Never
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Ever since the decline of the Inns of Court in the seventeenth century, law students had obtained a lot of their legal education from books.
The Judicial Education of William de Grey
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So in the seventeenth century the writers, exhausted by the mental effort of the Renaissance and prevented by the tyranny of kings and the domination of the church from occupying themselves with the great issues of life, turned their minds to gongorism, concettism and such-like toys.
The Summing Up
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Delano modeled his design on a seventeenth-century palazzo in Genoa, and the building was completed in 1909.
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In one verse he introduced a sideswipe at the repressive legal system of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (again something he criticized in his earlier historical novel, Barnaby Rudge).
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He argues that, despite the severe strain on population and economic growth caused by the slave trade, the economy continued to expand from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, and the colonial state acted as an economic depressant rather than a stimulant.
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First invented in the seventeenth century, manometers are used to measure the pressure of gases.
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Pin-tsun Chang, "Maritime Trade and Local Economy in Late Ming Fukien," 63 – 82; Ren-Chuan Lin, "Fukien's Private Sea Trade in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries," 163 – 216; and Chin-Keong Ng, "The South Fukienese Junk Trade at Amoy from the Seventeenth to Early Nineteenth Centuries," 297 – 316.
How Taiwan Became Chinese
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In the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries this jurisdiction was abandoned by the Chancellor and passed to the Court of Star Chamber.
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Intelligible extension, then, is just the idea of geometrical extension and its properties, or what in the seventeenth-century came to be known as the ˜primary qualities.™
Malebranche's Theory of Ideas and Vision in God
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The Union of the Crowns in 1603 largely brought about an end to such activities, though mosstroopers and horse thieves were still active in the borders throughout the seventeenth century.
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During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries increasingly smaller oligarchies came to power in the Swiss cantons but were overthrown in 1798 in the wake of the French Revolution.
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In the early seventeenth century it appeared in an Italian translation that reflected certain Italian sensibilities and was republished a number of times with emendations.
Seder Mitzvot Nashim.
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A preposterous seventeenth century opportunist, a loose cannon, an incorrigible hypocrite.
BEHINDLINGS
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The reign of Queen Elizabeth lapped over into the seventeenth century.
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By the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, moral laxity in the administration of confession by the clergy was evident.
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But from about the seventeenth century until the 1930s, we were called dab hands.
White Cat
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Chinese wallpapers, known as India papers, began to arrive in Europe around the end of the seventeenth century and proved so popular that they were soon being produced especially for the European market.
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For over three centuries, up to the final defeat of the seventeenth century, they fought as gallowglasses in the struggles of Ulster, mainly on behalf of the O'Donnells.
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He is as adept in the conceits of metaphysical poetry as he is in the tones and tunes of seventeenth-century verse; the strings upon which he strums are held taut by centuries.
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At the end of the seventeenth century, King's Counsel began to wear richly laced cravats, which together with their silk gown and full-bottomed wig, remain their full dress to the present day.
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Restoration of the seventeenth-century grade II building is complete following sensitive redevelopment which began early this decade.
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During the seventeenth century, French Jesuit missionaries converted many of the Iroquois to Catholicism.
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The music was drawn from his two most recent recitals recorded for Decca, a compilation of early-seventeenth-century English song and Italian madrigals and familiar folk songs from the British Isles.
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For the seventeenth-century Dutch philosopher who had so impressed Einstein, God and nature were as one deus sive natura, and the practice of doing math was tantamount to a quest for the divine.
SuperCooperators
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A variety of purely mechanical devices were used from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries to increase the size and capacity of the ear to conduct sound.
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Ukrainian folk architecture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries shows a considerable influence of baroque ornamentation and neoclassic orders while preserving traditional materials like wood and wattled clay.
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During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries AD, the region was administered as a province of the Mogul Empire.
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Early Americans enjoyed clams with the same passion as we do today, and polished clamshells served as currency (known as wampum) from the 1600's to the end of the seventeenth century.
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Wright looks back to sixteenth-and seventeenth-century England to explain the social origins of Australia's distinctive pub culture.
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She'd left Dansky two days after her seventeenth birthday without giving it so much as a backward glance.
GALILEE
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Cinchona bark had long been used by indigenous people as a remedy for fevers, and at the end of the seventeenth century, a British physician, in one of the earliest controlled studies of a drug, proved that its effect was unique to what was then known as tertian fever.
MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION
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The ebony veneered case was probably made by one of the other Flemish artisans active in Rome in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
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If he had been a seventeenth-century samurai I believe that he would refuse to hire ninja to circumvent the laws of Bushido.
FLOATING CITY
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A rare collection of cookbooks consumed her private attic rooms from floor to ceiling, an archive that grew like a fungus above and around her good pieces of furniture, such as the seventeenth-century gueridon or the Louis XV–style walnut bergère armchair.
The Hundred-Foot Journey
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Nonetheless, after a generation or two, the movement withered away leaving few traces behind it (except for the German Lutheran cities of the north); and this occurred, not because the movement was persecuted out of existence, but because its principal sponsors, the independent-minded szlachta, abandoned it for a revived, populistic Catholicism as a result of the crisis of national survival produced by the mid-seventeenth-century Swedish invasion, the "Deluge.
Poland's Past
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It went onto the slopes of Pia Fortress and counted five fortalices, as attested by the maps of the seventeenth century.
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In both pattern books and extant artifacts, quilted feathers resemble the gadrooned edgings of seventeenth-and eighteenth-century furniture and fine metalwares.
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Repeated in a new situation, the old formulations can often be misleading, as instanced by the examples of Baius and Jansenius in the seventeenth century.
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We now know that the duty of the lexicographer is to record and not to criticize, that refined speech and elegant speech are the delusions of a mistaken optimism, and that the only people who now speak English with any approach to historical correctness are the few surviving agricultural laborers who are old enough to have escaped the devastating effects of the Elementary Education Act. Johnson's Dictionary went far to accomplish, in the eighteenth century, what the Italian and French Academies had unsuccessfully attempted in the seventeenth.
On Dictionaries
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It could be a party to celebrate your seventeenth birthday, a new year, a new you.
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Already in the seventeenth century the possibility was widely discussed that animals could be understood as machines or automata.
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It has a grand establishment known as the Société d'Automobiles Bauchet, which will cater for any and every want of the automobilist, and has a half-dozen sights of first rank, from the old Hôtel Dieu to the bizarre doubled-up Eglise St. Nicolas and the seventeenth-century, wood-roofed market-house.
The Automobilist Abroad
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In his treatment of the sexual undertones of courtly love and seventeenth-century gallantry, Maidment's wicked sense of humour could reduce a tutorial to helpless laughter.
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Almost all the nutmeg graters in the Green Collection were made in England or America between the late seventeenth and early twentieth centuries.
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The full dress of a Proctor's man or "bulldog", as he is vulgarly called-is picturesque enough, for it is of a seventeenth-century pattern and consists in a long blue cloak studded with brass buttons.
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There are many genres where prints of the highest quality, such as seventeenth-century French portraits, early lithographs and mezzotints are ridiculously cheap.
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No wide secession to Rome, however, followed the development of this seventeenth-century school, though it played a large part in the nonjuror schism, and with the decay of that schism and under the latitudinarian tendencies of the eighteenth century it greatly dwindled.
The Map of Life Conduct and Character
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In south-east Leicestershire two anthropoid shells of local manufacture are to be found in an extensive seventeenth-century vault.
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The humoral vision of the body lasted until the late seventeenth century in Europe.
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Looking back to the seventeenth century, or forward to the late twentieth century.
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The jingles on the King of France, against the Scots in the time of James I., against the Tory, or Irish rapparee, and about the Gunpowder Plot, are of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
The Nursery Rhyme Book
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But he discovered other groups who were far from being like the Baptists of the seventeenth century, such as the millenarian Munster radicals.
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The more ordinary receptacle for this purpose, up to the seventeenth century, was the armarium near, or an octagon-shaped tower placed on the Gospel side of, the altar.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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By the seventeenth century, more radical treatments, often chemical, came into fashion and the gentle, gradual, and individualized diet fell out of favour.
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For Durkheim this explained the harshness of punishment in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when absolute monarchy was at its height.
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The Jewish presence in Romania dates back to the fifteenth century, but it reached significant proportions only in the seventeenth century with the major waves of emigration from eastern and northeastern Europe and, as a result of the Chmielnicki massacres (1648 – 1649), from Ukraine, Galicia and Bukovina as well.
Romania, Women and Jewish Education.
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In default of legal authority, in this early period, they formed squatter governments and land associations, comparable to the action of the Massachusetts men who in the first quarter of the seventeenth century "squatted" in the
The Frontier in American History
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They were first written down by Isaac Newton in the seventeenth century and gave rise to a general view of nature known as the clockwork universe.
Newton's laws of motion
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This fabric dates back to seventeenth century India when it was sometimes called nansook, nyansook or nainsook and was thought to give ‘pleasure to the eye’.
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Local conservationists had their work cut out staving off redevelopment of the seventeenth-century town centre.
FORESTS OF THE NIGHT
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The productivity of the eastern system of agriculture declined in the seventeenth century.
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Here there are obvious earth shapes that tell of a village abandoned in the seventeenth century, and we saw a lovely patch of snowdrops and aconites, the prettiest harbingers of spring.
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Slaves had been playing fiddle as early as the seventeenth century.
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British diplomatist Sir Harold Nicolson (like him, an eighteenth century man living a seventeenth century life in the midst of the twentieth century) sought him out on his valedictory trip to the United States in 1963.
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The book does feel somewhat incomplete, but it is apparently purposely designed as one of a set of four - matching a similar volume also by Fara on electricity in the eighteenth century, and also books by Stephen Pumfrey on the seventeenth century and Iwan Morus on the nineteenth.
Recap of Season 2
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Later, at a lavish reception for three hundred at Frogmore House in Windsor Great Park—a spectacular seventeenth-century royal residence that is also the burial place of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert—Kate and Chelsy cut loose with Harry on the dance floor.
William and Kate
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‘The ‘great’ national historian Macaulay,’ Trotsky wrote, ‘vulgarises the social drama of the seventeenth century by obscuring the inner struggle of forces with platitudes that are sometimes interesting but always superficial.’
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Awareness of the hallucinogenic properties of bhang, the resin from the Indian-grown variety of cannabis, certainly existed in Europe by the early seventeenth century, thanks to the adventurousness of colonial travellers.
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C A S E - N O T E S: Johnny Anderson, September 9. Seventeenth session.
A MEANS TO EVIL
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In England, France and Germany magic lanterns, moveable gauze screens and transparencies had been used to experiment with light on stage since the seventeenth century.
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These are generally rare books, such as incunabula and the higher class English literature of the seventeenth century, and are to be found in the libraries of wealthy collectors who are also learned men.
The Book-Hunter at Home
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Discussing the concomitants of ‘community,’ Schuster quotes P.M. Jones' study of neighborhoods in seventeenth-century Paris.
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The last aurochs, the wild bovines from which domesticated cattle are descended, died in Poland in the seventeenth century, not long before the last dodos were killed on Mauritius.
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A preposterous seventeenth century opportunist, a loose cannon, an incorrigible hypocrite.
BEHINDLINGS
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This might almost be called foolhardy, inasmuch as when he arrived at Mainz, on April seventeenth, he knew little or nothing of the enemy's position, force, or plans.
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.)
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By the seventeenth century, this indigenous elite did not always dress like Spaniards, certainly not on public ceremonial occasions.
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Here there are obvious earth shapes that tell of a village abandoned in the seventeenth century, and we saw a lovely patch of snowdrops and aconites, the prettiest harbingers of spring.
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The tree of life design on the palampore in Plate VI, with branches blooming in an impossibly diverse and bizarre collection of flowers, is typical of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Southwark was London's bawdy pleasure district.
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Had I known Mr.W. 's book, The Decline of Hell: Seventeenth Century Discussions of Eternal Torment, I might well have consulted him on demonological points in the text.
Publisher's Row
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Virginian squires; and could we have peeped into the square, solid drawing-room in which, as President, he held his receptions, aided by the matronly grace and dignity of Mrs. Washington, the scene would be far gayer and more imposing than William Penn's house would have displayed, or the company of the richest Dutch "patroon" of New York could have presented in the seventeenth century.
The Nation in a Nutshell
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In the late seventeenth century, however, park in English referred to a different kind of enclosure, one catering to humans who sought respite from the noisome distractions of city life.
The English Is Coming!
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In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries they were among the natural specimens collected by virtuosi, or amateur scientists, who kept their collections in specialized cabinets of curiosity.
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By the end of the seventeenth century British plantations were growing a wide variety of crops including tobacco and sugar.
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I congratulate you on the seventeenth anniversary of our dear Marie.
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Sure enough, I’d been selected: Report first thing in the morning to the seventeenth floor of the Wells Fargo building, where I would “fill an assignment” as data entrist.
The Making of Toro
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Kings emerged from the seventeenth-century crisis as secular guarantors of political and social order, along the lines of Thomas Hobbes's social contract theory.
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The seventeenth century Oxford where the crime writer sets his substantial historical novel is in some ways very similar to Morson's city.
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Twenty-one Presidents can be traced back to seventeenth-century origins among New England colonists.
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The late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries were periods of recolonization in Ukraine, particularly in the provinces of Kiev and Bratslav.
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Positional warfare - that is, the construction, defence, and attack of fortresses and fortified lines - played a major role in seventeenth and eighteenth-century warfare.
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In the seventeenth century there were a number of very accomplished portrait engravers who worked after their own drawings.
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In the beginning of the seventeenth century Elizabeth Bathgate, spouse of Alexander Pae, maltman in Eyemouth, was prosecuted at the instance of the Lord Advocate for sorcery.
The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales
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Thomas Sydenham, the seventeenth-century physician known as the ‘English Hippocrates’, wrote, ‘Disease is nothing else but an attempt of the body to rid itself of morbific matter’.
The Tao of Health, Sex and Longevity
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Until the mid-seventeenth century, bourgeois and nobles in many regions used the local tongue among themselves, and even wrote literary works in them.
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At the end of the seventeenth century, the first academy to function as a guide to general cultural endeavour in Italy was the Accademia degli Arcadi, founded in 1690.
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The South Fukienese Junk Trade at Amoy from the Seventeenth to Early Nineteenth Centuries.
How Taiwan Became Chinese
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In the seventeenth century, and before, power resided in the military, but the state did not have the monopoly of armed force.
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Seventeenth-century philosopher Hugo Grotius coined the Latin phrase dominium eminens
Everything2 New Writeups
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In Japan, for example, torture was used from a very early date to extract confessions, and from the beginning of the Tokugawa period in the seventeenth century the Japanese seem to have used something very like the strappado.
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The land was enclosed in the seventeenth century .
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One may cite in this context the by no means exceptional example of the seventeenth-century antiquary Simonds D' Ewes, who had crammed his notebooks with no less than 2,850 Latin and Greek verses by the time he left grammar school!
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The library has recently acquired a weaver's pattern book printed in the seventeenth century described by the textile historian Patricia Hilts as the earliest known example of its genre.
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The ornately carved doors were made in the seventeenth century.
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Bernier, who wrote about his travels in Hindustan during the mid-seventeenth century, supports the claim of widespread consumption of Central Asian fruit in India.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
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Townships budded from village or parish folkland in Maryland and Massachusetts in the seventeenth century, just as they had done in England before the time of Alfred.
The Critical Period of American History
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In the seventeenth century, the custom of adding sage (a herb valued at the time for its health-giving properties) to Derby cheese was begun.
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Chester is a town with significant histories stretching from Roman times, through medieval England, the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and now these millennial times.
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Poetry in the early seventeenth century is not yet the song of the self.
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She finished seventeenth at the world championships in Switzerland.
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In the walls at the two sides of the high altar, there are two elegant small choirs in red marble, placed on marmoreal portal as well, and the two Chancels with big seventeenth century organs.
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But while I have tried to put poets to as many poems as I can, most verses have remained true to their seventeenth-century nature and elude ascription.
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A wonderful jar of the late seventeenth century looks like a three-dimensional marbleized endpaper in an expensive book.
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Tin-glazed earthenware was first manufactured in Delft, Holland, in the early seventeenth century.
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However, the Protestant Reformers of the sixteenth century continued to hold the Augustinian view of the millennium; nevertheless they suggested changes in eschatological interpretation that led to a renewal of premillennialism in the seventeenth century.
The Myth/Reality of Antichrist - and the danger to America!
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-- Coffee in the seventeenth century, inoculation in that which followed; since which we have had now and then a new dance and a new game at cards, curry and mullagatawny soup from the East Indies, turtle from the West, and that earthly nectar to which the East contributes its arrack, and the West its limes and its rum.
Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society
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I still must assert that this discovery appears to me to be as important for the middle of the nineteenth century as the discovery of fluxions [the calculus] was for the close of the seventeenth.
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The earliest series of prohibitions against this rising print culture date to the late seventeenth century, and attempt to enforce a ban on the depiction of current events through periodic repetition.
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A seventeenth- or eighteenth-century lithograph of a small town.
CHAMELEON
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So much valuable information is offered here that perhaps even the firmest of computer holdouts will be encouraged to join the twenty-first century in order to learn about the seventeenth.
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For Durkheim this explained the harshness of punishment in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when absolute monarchy was at its height.
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'Vandyke' was the early Victorian spelling of the surname of Sir Anthony Van Dyck, the seventeenth-century Flemish painter famous for his fine portraits of members of the English aristocracy and royal court.
'The Making of Mr. Gray's Anatomy: Books, Bodies, Fortune, Fame'
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The fuzzy notion of democracy was despised by scholars prior to the seventeenth century.
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The chief liturgiologist of the seventeenth century is the Blessed Cardinal Tommasi, a Theatine
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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There is but little of interest in the present buildings at Vallombrosa, which date from the seventeenth century; nor does the church itself possess anything of importance, unless it be the relic of S. Giovanni enshrined in a casquet of the sixteenth century, a work of Paolo
Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition
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Kepler, Galileo, and Newton in the seventeenth century, were the means of effecting a rapid advance in the science of astronomy; but that branch of it known as sidereal astronomy was not then in existence.
The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
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Some of this "crewel" work, done in the seventeenth century, is described by M. Jourdain in "English
Quilts Their Story and How to Make Them
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The religious intensity of Puritan settlers infused every facet of life in seventeenth-century New England, including criminality.
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On September seventeenth of that year, pursuant to a procedure for the removal of a nevus — that is, a birthmark — from Miss Corrones's leg, did you administer Ketaject to her and then, when you perceived her to be unconscious, partially undress her, fondle her breasts and genitals and masturbate until you reached a climax?
Mistress of Justice
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C A S E - N O T E S: Johnny Anderson, September 9. Seventeenth session.
A MEANS TO EVIL
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The full Glyndebourne staging is scenically rich and elaborate; Kent and Brown make no attempt to re-create seventeenth century operatic moeurs but instead find modern versions of them.
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In England, fertility was checked by the late seventeenth-century increase in the age at which women married and in the proportion of both sexes who never married.
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-- At the close of the seventeenth century, a new dawn arose in the history of Italian letters, and the general corruption which had extended to every branch of literature and paralyzed the Italian mind began to be arrested by the appearance of writers of better taste; the affectations of the Marinists and of the so-called Arcadian poets were banished from literature; science was elevated and its dominion extended, the melodrama, comedy, and tragedy recreated, and a new spirit infused into every branch of composition.
Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities
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Attempts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to adopt the new calendar had broken on the rock of the Church of England, which denounced it as popish.
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The stained glass, which is mostly of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, was reset in 1912.
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Considering the political instability of the seventeenth century in Britain, the illustrations show that British craftsmen were producing remarkable examples of the cutler's art.
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The Army of the Potomac began to move on March seventeenth, eighteen sixty-two. Within two weeks, more than fifty thousand had reached Fort Monroe, southeast of Richmond.
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From the first simple uncovered _ibrik_ there was developed, about the middle of the seventeenth century, a larger-size covered coffee boiler, the forerunner of the modern combination brewing and serving pot.
All About Coffee
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A third of the population was trying to live in a way that only a seventeenth of the population could live.
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She bought him a book called The Lives of the Great Composers for his seventeenth birthday.
DESPERADOES
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Muck in the seventeenth century meant, unequivocally, animal dung.
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The Italian travels are reflected in his acquisition of Italian seventeenth- and eighteenth-century paintings and bronzes, classical and renaissance cameos and intaglios and Italian maiolica.
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During the seventeenth century heraldic windows adorned the naves of Dutch Reform churches, a custom dating back several centuries in the Netherlands.
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Doubts about the authenticity of visual appearances, which mark seventeenth-century ethics, also prompted a general epistemological interest in what the eye perceived.
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The antiquary John Aubrey, writing in the seventeenth century, cited a report that Shakespeare ‘had been in his younger years a schoolmaster in the country’.
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In the early seventeenth century staves were used in the ‘sport’ of bull-baiting, where dogs were set against bulls.
Origin of Familiar Phrases
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A seventeenth- or eighteenth-century lithograph of a small town.
CHAMELEON
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Forced to submit to a vote of the people under the newly enacted seventeenth amendment, Henry's forces were noted for "stuffing ballot boxes, shipping repeats, and intimidating voters".
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The OED's example is from a seventeenth-century dictionary, whose explanation of epiphora closely parallels the Rev. Peacham's as Mr. Espy quotes it on p. 178.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1
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Perhaps no one better represents the true precieuse of the seventeenth century, the happy blending of social savoir-faire with an amiable temper and a cultivated intellect.
The Women of the French Salons
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The name San Salvador was given to Cat Island during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but it does not fit the description given by Columbus in as much as it is not low and level and has no interior lagoon.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
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As much as I'd like us to dispose ourselves like Sarum-rite groomsmen or grave Spanish courtiers of the seventeenth century, I realize such antiquarianism is not a going concern.
Liturgical Wedding Crashers
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Textually, the poem carries an epigraph from the seventeenth-century
A Tour of the Sceptic
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The seventeenth century grade II listed building was converted into a pub in the 1970s and the pub closed at the end of last year.
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Sections of the church, including the belfry, date at least as far back as the early seventeenth century and possibly even earlier.
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Her second round of 55 was achieved despite a treble bogey at the downhill 16th courtesy of twos at the second, fifth, twelfth, thirteenth and seventeenth.
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Chapters three and four discuss the image of the pirate as constructed in trials and the press, showing how late seventeenth-century sea-rovers William Kidd and Henry Avery were heroized.
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This project is producing a database guide to about 400 manuscript miscellanies and commonplace books by British women from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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The French word portage, for example, was already in common use before the end of the seventeenth century, and soon after came chowder, cache, caribou, voyageur, and various words that, like the last-named, have since become localisms or disappeared altogether.
Chapter 2. The Beginnings of American. 2. Sources of Early Americanisms
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Khitat informs us that the lakelet was made abot the end of the seventh century (A.H.), and in the seventeenth year of the eighth century became the site of the stables.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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His work was seminal for understanding the role and importance of apocalyptic literature and its interpretations in the lives of early seventeenth-century Puritans.
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In the early and mid-seventeenth century, most intellectuals and most governors believed that there was a divine imperative to bring godliness, good discipline, and order to the English nation.
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In the seventeenth century, a number of hypotheses had been proposed for the origin of fossils.
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In the 1630s as well as the 1670s, Boston was inhabited by libertines as well as orthodox Puritans, but in the last quarter of the seventeenth century, town leaders feared that they were losing control.
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To trace their sources one can turn to sixteenth-and seventeenth-century Puritan thought and practice.
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Her degree is in French, with specialization in seventeenth-century literature.
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The author was writing in the seventeenth century.
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Assigning tunes and tune variants to specific poems and ballads was not uncommon during the seventeenth century.
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Consequently, since this month always began with that new moon of which the fourteenth day occurred on or next after the vernal equinox, Christ arose from the dead on Sunday, the seventeenth day of the so-called paschal moon.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
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This volume, a specialized collection of essays on the impact of Marcello Malpighi, the seventeenth-century anatomist and physician, grew out of a conference held at Cambridge in 1994.
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Much of the intertribal strife of the seventeenth century originated in long-standing competitiveness and jealously which was highly exacerbated by the introduction of European goods.
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Only two groups had ‘social’ status in seventeenth-century England - the gentry and the peerage.
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The first indication that the Sun might be emitting a ‘wind’ came in the seventeenth century from observations of comet tails.
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Blake was not an isolated rebel but part of an antinomian tradition, a radical underground, those who wrote within the assumptions of ‘enthusiasm,’ dating back at least to the seventeenth-century religious revolutionaries.
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At about the seventeenth day the first butterflies will probably start to emerge.
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The feather is a classic quilting pattern that was in fashion on embroideries by the beginning of the seventeenth century.
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The representations of Jahangir, the Great Mogul, by English travellers, merchants, and diplomats who visited and resided in India in the early seventeenth century largely perpetuate this binary.
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Clear title to land was the crucial aspect of seventeenth century landholding.
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So important was it thought to have "sound learning" guarded and "safe science" taught, that in many of the universities, as late as the end of the seventeenth century, professors were forced to take an oath not to hold the "Pythagorean" -- that is, the Copernican -- idea as to the movement of the heavenly bodies.
A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
