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ninth, a. and n.|ˈnaɪnθ|
Forms: α. 1. niᵹ(e)oða, nyᵹoða, 1–2 niᵹeþe, nyᵹeþe, 2–3 niȝeðe, (2 nihȝ-), 3 neoȝethe; 1 nioða, 2–3 nieðe, 4 nyeþe, nyþe, niþe. β. 1 niᵹend(e, 3 niȝhennde, 4 ni(g)h-, neghend, 4 niend, nyend, neynd, neiuind, nend, nind, niinde, nynde. γ. 4 neghent, neuent, neynt, neent, nente; Sc. 5 ninte, 5–6 nynte, 5–7 nynt, 6 nint. δ. 2 niᵹonðe, 3 ninþe, 4 ney(e)nþe, nynethe, 4–5 nynþe, 4–6 -the, 4–7 nynth, 6 nienth, nineth, 6– ninth.
[Various formations from the numeral nine are represented here. The α-forms, OE. niᵹoða, etc., correspond to OS. niguđo, MLG. negede, and are parallel with OE. seofoða seventh, eahtoða eight. The β-forms correspond to OFris. niugunda, -enda, OS. nigundo, MDu. and MLG. negende, OHG. niundo, niunto (MHG. niunde, niunte, G. neunte, † neunde), ON. níonde, níundi (Sw. nionde, Da. niende), Goth. niunda: it is possible that they may be due to Scand. influence. The anomalous neiuind, neuent, may be on the analogy of seuend, -ent, seventh. In the δ-forms the ordinal suffix -th is added to the full stem, as in sixth, seventh, eighth, tenth. With the γ-forms compare the obs. or dial. variants, fift, sixt, etc.]
The ordinal numeral corresponding to the cardinal number nine.
A. adj.
1. a. In concord with n. expressed or understood.
αa900O.E. Martyrol. 9 May 80 On þone nyᵹeðan dæᵹ þæs monðes bið sumeres fruma. c950Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. i. 3 In tal ða nioða. 971Blickl. Hom. 141 On þa niᵹoþan tid þæs dæᵹes. a1067in Kemble Cod. Dipl. IV. 222 Þa healf nyᵹoðe hundreda socne. c1175Lamb. Hom. 115 Þe nihȝeðe unþeau is þet þe king beo unrihtwis. a1225Ancr. R. 328 Þe nieðe reisun is þis. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 5406 Þe niþe ȝer of is kinedom. c1300Beket 617 The Neoȝethe [law] was that Peteres Pans..To the Pope nere not on isend. a1400Minor Poems Vernon MS. 245 Þe Niþe [article] is wiþ-outen bost: Þat in god is þe holy-gost.
βa1066in Kemble Cod. Dipl. IV. 194/11 Ða niᵹend half hundred socne. c1200Ormin 4488 Þe niȝhennde [commandment] wass sett þurrh Godd. a1300Cursor M. 26686 Þe nend point þou vnderstand. 1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 4790 Þe neghend day, gret erthedyn sal be. c1357Lay Folks Catech. 232 The neynd [commandment] is, that we noght yerne our neghtebur house. c1400Rule St. Benet (Prose) 14/21 Sain benet spekis..of þe nihend degrece o mekenes. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) v. 14 At þe nynde moneth end a voice come to him.
γa1300Cursor M. 16767 + 59 About þe neghent oure of þe day. Ibid. 29470 þe neuent [case] es for þin aun pruu. 1375Barbour Bruce xix. 527 On the nynt day, The lord Dowglass hass spyit a vay. c1400Destr. Troy Title, Neynt Boke. c1470Gol. & Gaw. 1044 Na nane of the nynt degre haue noy of my name. 1513Douglas æneis xii. Prol. 268 The nynt morow of fresche temperat May. 1563Winȝet Four Scoir Thre Quest. Wks. (S.T.S.) I. 129 At the nynte hour of prayar. 1588A. King tr. Canisius' Catech. 12 Quhat expressis ye nynt articl?
δa1122O.E. Chron. (Laud MS.) an. 634 He rixade .ix. winter; man ᵹetealde him þæt niᵹonðe for þan heðenscipe þe hi druᵹon [etc.]. c1290Beket 617 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 124 Þe Ninþe [law] was þat peteres panes..þe pope nere nouȝt on i-send. c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 12 Þei breken þe neynþe maundement of god. 1390Gower Conf. III. 123 The nynthe Signe..Is cleped Sagittarius. 1541Coverdale Old Faith F vij b, In the nynth Chapter of Esaye. 1578Lyte Dodoens 89 Theophrastus in his nienth Booke. a1650Crashaw Poems (1858) 174 The ninth with awful horror hark'ned to those groans. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 190/1 The Knights of St. Stephen..instituted..in honor of Pope Stephen the nineth. 1774Burke Sp. Amer. Tax. Wks. II. 383 The words of Governour Bernard's ninth letter. 1820Ranken Hist. France VIII. i. vi. 246 He should be established in the rank of ninth elector. 1873Mivart Elem. Anat. 399 The ninth nerve is called the hypoglossal.
b. The ninth day (of a month).
1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. viii. 147 Quhilk feild was strukne the nynt of September. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, ii. iii. 29 To meete me in Armes by the ninth of the next Moneth? 1653Walton Angler xiii. (repr.) 246, I shall long for the ninth of May. a1845Hood (title), Ode for the Ninth of November.
2. ninth part, or † ninth deal, one of the nine equal parts into which a thing may be divided.
971Blickl. Hom. 53 Dæle [he] þeah his ælmessan forþ of þon niᵹeoþan dælon. c1200Moral Ode 342 (Trin. Coll. MS.), Þe brode strate..þe lat þe nieðe [v.r. niȝeðe] dal to helle of manne. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, iii. i. 140 Ile cauill on the ninth part of a hayre. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. iii. xi, This is he, whom..the world treats with contumely, as the ninth part of a man! 1846McCulloch Acc. Brit. Empire (1854) II. 309 There the adherents of the Established Church do not exceed one ninth part of the population.
3. quasi-adv. In the ninth place. rare.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 292 b, Nynth, they be mortifyed from all inwarde affeccyon & delectacyons.
B. n.
1. = Ninth part.
c1275Moral Ode 336 in O.E. Misc. 70 Þeo brode stret..þat lat þe nyeþe to helle of folke. 1557Recorde Whetst. B ii b, Sesquinona..a nineth more. 1611Cotgr. Neufaine, a ninth. 1802James Milit. Dict. s.v. Cannon, If the fissure be 1-ninth of an inch deep. 1870Sonnenschein & Nesbitt Sci. & Art Arith. ii. 1 Find one ninth..of {pstlg}57.15s. 1897Günther in Miss Kingsley W. Africa 702 The diameter of the eye..is two ninths of the length of the head.
2. Mus.
a. The interval of an octave and a second. Also, a note eight diatonic degrees above or below another note.
1597Morley Introd. Mus. 71 Phi. Which distances make discord..? Ma. All such as doe not make concords: as a second, a fourth,..a ninth. 1609Douland Ornith. Microl. 21 Now a Tone with a Diapason is a perfect Ninth. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. App. s.v., When an upper part syncopates, the second is accented and treated as a Ninth. 1837Penny Cycl. VII. 114/2 The most elegant form which the chord of the Ninth and Seventh assumes. 1864Browning Abt Vogler 93, I blunt it into a ninth. 1880Parry in Grove's Dict. Mus. II. 459 The compound intervals called ninths exceed the octave either by a tone or a semitone; if the former the ninth is called ‘major’, if the latter it is called ‘minor’.
b. In full, ninth chord. The chord of such notes; a ninth added to a triad.
1845Encycl. Metrop. IV. 799 As to pentachords, such as what have been called the major and minor ninth, and compound sharp sixth,..they are..only chords of the seventh..with a fifth note violently forced in. 1876Stainer & Barrett Dict. Mus. Terms 303/1 Chord of the major ninth, a chord formed by a combination of thirds starting with the dominant or fifth of the scale, called by some writers the ‘added ninth’, because it consists of a chord of the dominant seventh, with the addition of the ninth; by others the ‘dominant ninth’, because it occurs on a dominant bass. Ibid. 303/2 Chord of the minor ninth..consists of a dominant, its major third, major (perfect) fifth, minor seventh, and minor ninth. 1926A. Niles in W. C. Handy Blues iii. 16 The device..of ending up the tune on the diminished seventh chord..lately sometimes on the chord of the ninth. 1934[see eleventh n. 2]. 1949L. Feather Inside Be-Bop ii. 50 By the 1920's it had become fashionable to end on a seventh or ninth chord. 1952R. Eldridge in B. Ulanov Hist. Jazz in Amer. (1958) xix. 238, I was full of ideas. Augmented chords. Ninths. 1969Rolling Stone 28 June 17/3 In those days country music was very loose in both meter and lyrics... No one had ever heard of a ninth chord.
3. The ninth chapter. rare—1.
1671[R. MacWard] True Nonconf. 244 In the Nynths of Ezrah, Nehemiah, and Daniel.
Hence ˈninthly adv., in the ninth place; also as n. with ref. to the heads of a sermon.
c1532G. Du Wes Introd. Fr. in Palsgr. 929 Nynthly, neuuiésmement. 1579Fulke Refut. Rastel 770 Ninthly, that the lay people were not forbidden. 1648D. Jenkins Wks. 38 Ninthly, wee maintaine that the politick capacity is not to be sevred from the naturall. 1681H. More Expos. Dan. App. iii. 298 Ninthly, If any one will again object. 1874Aldrich Prud. Palfrey x. (1885) 164 The poor old parson's interminable ninthlies and finallies. |
