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Definition of Eighty-nine
1. Adjective. Being nine more than eighty.
Definition of Eighty-nine
1. Cardinal numeral. The cardinal number immediately following eighty-eight and preceding ninety. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eighty-nine
Literary usage of Eighty-nine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties by United States, Charles Joseph Kappler (1904)
"A lease bearing date the twentieth day of May, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine,
between »lames F. Freeney and .lohn M. Grady, citizens of the Choctaw ..."
2. United States Statutes at Large: Containing the Laws and Concurrent by United States (1850)
"... two hundred and eighty-nine dollars and fifty cents be, and the same is For
furnishing hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury ..."
3. Colonial Records of Pennsylvania by Samuel Hazard (1853)
"... north eighty nine degrees, west thirty-one perches, north eighty-five degrees,
west fifty-seven perches and one-tenth of a perch, north eighty degrees, ..."
4. English Hymns: Their Authors and History by Samuel Willoughby Duffield (1886)
"He died September 5th, 1798, aged eighty-nine. His Divine Songs, Hymns and Poems,
1747, and Poems, Devotional and Moral, \ 794, reveal the sources of his ..."
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