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23 adj.

One more than twenty-two; denoting a quantity consisting of twenty-three items or units; representing the number twenty-three as Arabic numerals

Synonyms: twenty-three, xxiii

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Etymology of '23'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... counsel upon accusations made by one party behind the back of the other, who urgently demanded and was pertinaciously refused the least opportunity of denial or defence. He rejected the proposal for an amicable separation, but consented when threatened with a suit in Doctors' Commons.' {23} ...

— Lady Byron Vindicated • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... [23]: Quoted by M. Pascal, in the ninth of his "Lettres Provinciales." Consult also "the Life of Melancthon," by the author ...

— Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. II • Francis Augustus Cox

... 23 is presumably Marryat himself. At least the footnote occurs in the first edition, and was probably reprinted from the magazine, where the identity of editor and author ...

— Newton Forster • Frederick Marryat

... Number 23 was a hard one. I had headed off the squadron he was with and picked the second one. He started to get away. The third attacked Lieutenant R., and was soon engaged by Lieutenants B. and R., but, nevertheless, escaped within his own lines. My opponent pretended to fall after the ...

— An Aviator's Field Book - Being the field reports of Oswald Boelcke, from August 1, - 1914 to October 28, 1916 • Oswald Boelcke

... had prepared his ship, he removed all his army from the capital to Eidsvags;[22] afterwards he himself returned to the city, where he remained some nights, and then set out for Herlover.[23] Here all the troops, both from the Northern and Southern districts, assembled, as is described in ...

— The Norwegian account of Haco's expedition against Scotland, A.D. MCCLXIII. • Sturla oretharson

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