What's the difference between eighteenth and octodecimo?
Eighteenth
Definition:
(a.) Next in order after the seventeenth.
(a.) Consisting of one of eighteen equal parts or divisions of a thing.
(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by eighteen; one of eighteen equal parts or divisions.
(n.) The eighth after the tenth.
Example Sentences:
(1) The skeleton of an adult man, recovered from an eighteenth century French fort site in Indiana, exhibited a series of sharp force wounds.
(2) Analysis of the genealogic tree of the complete family groups showed that the apoprotein (apo) AIMilano is transmitted as an autosomal dominant trait, all carriers coming from a single mating couple, living in the eighteenth century.
(3) The source and nature of the ethnography of the important eighteenth century thinker Johann Gottfried Herder can in large part be understood through his relationship to his own society and especially through his part in the German cultural nationalist movement of the day.
(4) Wesley had consulted some sources, common sense, and his own experience, tempering those with the general principle of "doing good to all men," particularly "those who desire to live according to the gospel...." Thus, the Methodist patriarch's own formula for life had as much to do with the spread of Primitive Physick throughout eighteenth-century Britain and America as did all of the remedies and suggestions imprinted upon its pages.
(5) Other eighteenth-century artists countered with pathognomy, recognizing that uneven physical features may indicate humanity, instead of character flaws.
(6) The embryos were paralyzed from the tenth to the eighteenth day, when the experiment was terminated.
(7) By the eighteenth century it was said that: "this spirit of liberty is so deeply implanted in our constitution, and rooted in our very soil, that a slave the moment he lands in England, falls under the protection of the laws, and with regard to all natural rights becomes instantly a freeman."
(8) In the eighteenth century, a pedestrian strolling around Georgian London may have witnessed the bizarre sight of an ageing gentleman parading the streets on a painted horse and brandishing the jawbone of an ass.
(9) In tenth to eighteenth day visceral yolk sacs, the mesodermal portion was stained, which is consistent with the presence of basement membranes around blood vessels.
(10) Chick embryo trigeminal ganglia of nine days and hippocampus excised from fetal rats between the sixteenth and eighteenth day of gestation were cultivated in cell- and explantcultures in Maximow-chambers.
(11) Natal molars are rare occurrences, the present instance being only the eighteenth reported case.
(12) Only those patients were included who could be followed beyond the eighteenth year of life (up to age 45).
(13) Attention is called to the fact that, long before the systematization of oral digitalis therapy by Withering in the eighteenth century, the drug was applied to the skin by inunction, producing effects that can now be recognized as due to an overdosage of Digitalis glycosides.
(14) The sudden emergence of rheumatic fever at the end of the eighteenth century was the result of distinct biological changes that led to cardiac damage.
(15) Immanuel Kants "Critique of Judgment" (1970) reflects the medicine of the second part of the eighteenth century.
(16) These were largely resolved by the eighteenth day of illness.
(17) The initial rate of incorporation of [15N]alanine into the 6-amino group of the adenine nucleotides in rat hepatocytes was about one-eighteenth of the rate of incorporation into urea.
(18) From a staining series with anti-thiolase on simultaneously treated slides, it appears that the amount of antigen per peroxisome and the organelle size increase between the seventh and eighteenth weeks.
(19) A reappraisal is offered of the precise sense in which the introduction of moral treatment at the end of the eighteenth century marked a decisive shift in our characteristic ways of responding to and coping with the mentally disturbed.
(20) There is evidence that paralytic poliomyelitis occurred in ancient times, but it was not recognized as a distinct disease until the eighteenth century and did not come into prominence until the late nineteenth century when epidemics began to appear.
Octodecimo
Definition:
(a.) Having eighteen leaves to a sheet; as, an octodecimo form, book, leaf, size, etc.
(n.) A book composed of sheets each of which is folded into eighteen leaves; hence; indicating more or less definitely a size of book, whose sheets are so folded; -- usually written 18mo or 18ยก, and called eighteenmo.