Tesseradecade
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A group of fourteen.
"For inſtance ; it is allowed by all the Commentators, both antient and modern, that in the ſecond of thoſe Teſſeradecades, or periods of fourteen generations, into which Matthew has diſtributed the whole Genealogy, he has either willfully ſuppreſſed, or negligently omitted three ſucceſſive deſcents from father to ſon, between Joram and Ozias; viz. Ochozias, Joaſh, Ahaziah; in contradiction to the truth of hiſtory, and to thoſe very books, whence he drew the Genealogy itſelf."
Example
More examples"For inſtance ; it is allowed by all the Commentators, both antient and modern, that in the ſecond of thoſe Teſſeradecades, or periods of fourteen generations, into which Matthew has diſtributed the whole Genealogy, he has either willfully ſuppreſſed, or negligently omitted three ſucceſſive deſcents from father to ſon, between Joram and Ozias; viz. Ochozias, Joaſh, Ahaziah; in contradiction to the truth of hiſtory, and to thoſe very books, whence he drew the Genealogy itſelf."
Etymology
From tessera- + deca- + -ade.
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