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four-score en · NUM

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of fourscore.
   alt of fourscore
   • I was then about four-score years of age, and my infirmities much increased by the severity of my confinement, yet as my day was, so strength was given. 1814, W. L. S. G., The Trial of Antichrist; Otherwise, The Man of Sin, for High Treason Against the Son of God, Tried at the Sessions House of Truth, […], 2nd edition, Dublin: […] [T]he Author, and Sold by T. Johnstone, […], Ogle […], Ogle & Aikman, […], page 174:
   • In twenty minutes after I left the pulpit, being anxious for letters from my family at home, I threw myself into a coach, and did not halt till I reached Liverpool, where I expected to find some: a journey of nearly four-score miles, not a small work for three-score and ten years! 1833, An Account of the Infancy, Religious and Literary Life, of Adam Clarke, LL.D., F.A.S., &c. […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: […] B. Waugh and T. Mason, for the Methodist Episcopal Church, […], page 140:
   • 3. Every subscriber of one penny per week, who is sixty years of age, or upwards, and under four-score, to be entitled to receive treble his subscription at the end of the year; that is, his own subscription, and twice as much more. 4. Every subscriber of one penny per week, who is four-score years of age, or upwards, and under ninety, to receive four times his subscription at the end of the year; that is, his own subscription, and three times as much more. 1806, The Orthodox Churchman’s Magazine and Review; or, A Treasury of Divine and Useful Knowledge, volume X, London: […] J. G. Barnard, […], and sold by F[rancis,] C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […], page 140:
   • While the survey goes far beyond the upwards of four-score plates, they make it possible to check the argument at all crucial points. 1930, The International Studio, page 77:
   • Sir George Mackenzie, nine years of age when it occurred, thus refers to the event, with additional circumstances, as being in his time notorious and uncontroverted:⁠—“And our accusers should remember, that these women were executed for higher crimes than the following Montrose’s camp, for which four-score women and children were drowned;[…]” 1856, Mark Napier, Memoirs of the Marquis of Montrose, volume second, Edinburgh: Thomas G. Stevenson, […]; London: Hamilton, Adams & Co., page 587:
   • This Work, beſides the Poetry, will contain about four-ſcore Plates of Muſic. 1773, Orfeo ed Euridice; Orpheus and Eurydice; an Opera in One Act. As Performed at the King’s Theatre in the Hay-Market., London: […] W. Griffin, […], page 16:
   • Nearly four-score children received gratuitous medical attention and care during 1874, and, had the accommodations been more ample, many more little sufferers would have been treated. 1875, Circulars of Information of the Bureau of Education, numbers 6-1875 (Statements Relating to Reformatory, Charitable, and Industrial Schools for the Young), Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 96: