a. Obs. [f. FOURSCORE a.: see -TH.] Eightieth.
1571. Golding, Calvin on Ps. xlv. 1. In the fowerscorthe Psalme, there is put ye plurall nomber (Lillyes). Ibid. (1587), De Mornay, viii. 100. What euidentnesse or certeintie is there in the Greeke histories afore the fourescorth Olympiade.
1657. Norths Plutarch, Add. Lives (1676), 2 (Constantine). Great Britain, of which he was the fourscorth King.
1713. Addison, Guardian, No. 137, 18 Aug., ¶ 7. An Aunt who would never marry beneath herself, and is supposed to have died a Maid in the fourscorth Year of her Age.