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Sevinten(e, num. Also: sevyn-, seven-, sewin-, -yn-, -ein-, seavin-, -en-, -ein-, sawin- and -ttene, -tein(e, -ttein, -teyne, -tin(e, sewnten, sevetein, seuten. [ME and e.m.E. seowentene (Layamon), seuentene (c1290), seuyntene (a1450), seauenteene (1592), OE seofontíene, -téne, -týne.]

1. The cardinal number seventeen: a. With noun.(a) a1400 Leg. S. xviii 462.
I … fuly led myn lyfe thare wele sewinten ȝer out & mare a1400 Leg. S. xviii 1013.
Sewynten c1420 Wynt. iv 1858.
The fyre … Sewyntene dayis wes ay lestand 1460 Peebles B. Rec. I 135.
For all the termys of sewynten ȝeris nest and togeder foloand the dat of this present wryt 1509 Liber Coll. Glasg. 208.
Sewinteyne schillyne and ane penne 1536 Antiq. Aberd. & B. III 222.
The sovme of sewyntene scoire of merkis a1578 Pitsc. I 371/4.
Sewinteine c1552 Lynd. Mon. 2756.
Sewintene 1569 Edinb. Test. I 337.
Thrie scoir sevinttene pundis 1570 Crim. Trials Iii 20.
And seventene vthers, skynnaris, litstaris, and cordineris 1577 Stewart Mem. 105.
Sawintene ?1604 Dundee Shipping P. 78.
Seweintein meillreis is fowrtei tua dokatis and ane half honnestllay payit 1612 M. Works Acc. (ed.) I 340.
Into the kings calbenit in the north round ane wondoke conteining seaventene feits c1614 Glasg. Univ. Mun. III 522.
Ane great sylver maser of sevintein unces or thairby 1616 M. Works Acc. (ed.) II 15.
For putting of aucht hundreth thriescoir sewinten daillis and xl treis to the schip going to Stirling 1620 Lanark Test. 8.
Sevintene auld scheip 1630 Bamff Chart. 223.
Of blankets [pr. plankets] and bed plaidis, by the serwants beds, sewintein pair 1641 Dumbarton B. Rec. 63.
Seventein 1655 Glasg. Univ. Mun. III 492.
Seavinteine 1655 Misc. Spald. C. V 337.
Sewnteine 1658 Rothesay B. Rec. 25.
Seawinteine 1661 Black Sc. Witches 43.
About sexten or sewnten yeirs since 1671 Reg. Panmure I xliv.
Seaventine 1673 Argyll Justic. Rec. 29.
Seavintein 1694 Glasgow B. Rec. IV 128.
Sevetein(b) 1517 Sutherland Bk. III 68.
Ane thousand fyv hundreth and seyntene yeiris

b. ellipt. or absol. 1375 Barb.; xiii 645 (C).
With sevintene in a bat 1417 Reg. Episc. Aberd. I 216.
The yher of grace a thousande four hundre and sevynten 1545 St. P. Henry VIII V 437.
The lorddis of this realm conwenit in this town the senten of this moneht

2. As the ordinal number: Seventeenth. = Sevintend adj. 1391 Lennox Mun. 43.
The sevyntene day of Februar 1477 Lennox Mun. 115.
Of our regnne the sevintene ȝere 1529 Fam. Rose 201.
Sewyntein 1580 Cath. Tr. 68/29.
In the sewinttein buik of the Citie of God 1678 Argyll Justic. Rec. 97.
Seavintein 1680 Kirkcudbr. B. Rec. MS 17 Nov.
Vpon the seaveintine day of November