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Sevintend, -te(i)nt, -teinth, adj. Also: seven-, sewin-, seaven- and -tint, -teenth. [ME and e.m.E. seuentenþe (c1300), seuintende (c1400), seventenyth (c1450), sevynteenth (1530), seventeenth (17th c.), OE seofontéoþa.] a. Seventeenth, the seventeenth in order. b. = Sevinten(e num. 1.a. 1433 Douglas Chart. 65.
The seuyntend day of the moneth of Aueryl 1583 Conv. Burghs I 162.
The Conventioun of Burrowis haldin … the … fourteint, fifteint, sevinteint and auchtene days of Junij a1586 Maitland Ho. Seytoun iv.
Sewintent 1626 Fraserburgh Kirk S. II 13 Aug.
Androw Fraser sat wpon the stuill for the sevinteint day of his repentance 1630-1651 Gordon Geneal. Hist. 53.
Seaventeinth 1638 Baillie I 158.
Mononday, the 10th of December, was our seventeenth session 1658 Aberd. B. Rec. IV 175.
The sewintint day of September 1660 Aberd. B. Rec. IV 185.
Sevententb. 1679 J. Somerville Mem. I 56.
John, King of England, haveing raigned seventeinth or eighteinth years