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Sevinty, num. Also: sevinti(e, -té, sevynty(e, -dty, seventy, sewinty, -ti(e, -té, sewynty, -ti, sewenti, seavintie, seaventie. [ME and e.m.E seofenntiȝ (Orm), seouenti (Ancr. R.), seuenti (1297), seuenty (Trevisa), seuynté (a1450), OE seofontiᵹ.] Seventy. a. attrib. The cardinal number seventy.c1400 Troy-bk. ii 3056.
Thelamocus regned wysly In Achaia ȝeris sevynty c1420 Wynt. i 1735.
The sewynty [C. sewynti, W. sevinty] wys interpretowrys 1470 Breadalbane Coll. (Reg. H.).
Sewenti 1670 Kirkcudbr. Sheriff Ct. Deeds I 241.
The sixteen day of August j^m vi^c and seavintie yeares

b. In comb. with numbers below ten (also, in dates).(1) a1400 Leg. S. xiv 70.
Sewynty ȝeris & foure a1500 Colk. Sow i 379.
The steidis sevin and sevinty And all boindis thame by 1645 Aberd. B. Rec. IV 50.
Tua hundreth and sewintie aucht punds 1677 Corshill Baron Ct. 143.
Seventie 1704 Aberd. Journal N. & Q. VI 128.
Seaventie five pounds Scots(2) 1471 Ayr Friars Pr. Chart. 53.
Thir indenturis mad at Ayr the vij dai of the moneth of November in the yer of God i^m cccc sewynty and a yer 1473 Liber Coll. Glasg. 186.
Sewinte and thre yeiris 1474 Antiq. Aberd. & B. IV 125.
Sewintie 1474 Stewart Mem. 73.
Sevintj-sevin ȝeris 1477 Stirlings of Keir 251.
The ȝer … a thoussande four hundreith sewynty and sewyn ȝeris 1477 Charter (Reg. H.) No. 460.
Sevyndty

c. ellipt.The Sevinte, the seventy disciples of Christ whose mission is described in Luke x 1.(1) 1379 Douglas Chart. 29.
The yhere of grace M.III^c sevynty and nyne a1400 Leg. S. Prol. 139.
Disciplis ȝet had he may, Forowtin thir, sewinty and twa c1420 Wynt. iii 12 (C).
I off kyngis ryal had sewynti 1492 Myll Spect. 278/11.
Quharfor the senatouris herand thairof put to deid of thair wyffis ij^c & sevyntye c1520-c1535 Nisbet Acts xxvii 37.
And we war almen in the schip, twa hundreth seuentj and sex 1676 Glasgow Chart. II 202.
j^m vj^c seavintie tua(2) c1520-c1535 Nisbet I 10.
He sendithe the sevinte befoire him to preche