threescore

«threescore» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: sixty — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

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archaic word

modern equivalent

sixty

part of speech

determiner or number

meaning for a pupil

Three times twenty, which is sixty. tree →

how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say sixty.

examples

• and threescore and twelve thousand beeves, (Torah NUM.31.33, JPS 1917) tree →
• ‘I must have threescore cattle killed,’ said she, ‘and cut up into quarters, and every time I look over my shoulder he must throw one of them into my mouth.’ (The Yellow Fairy Book) tree →
• and threescore and one thousand asses, (Torah NUM.31.34, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

sixty

tests

manual 11.5; corpora 25 (Torah 24, tales 1, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 2.8 (Torah alone 56.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

In the corpora

• The length by cubits after the ancient measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «threescore» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.