four-score

See also: four score, and fourscore

English

Numeral

four-score

1. Alternative form of fourscore.
   • 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:

     This Work, beſides the Poetry, will contain about four-ſcore Plates of Muſic.

   • 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:

     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.

   • 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:

     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.

   • 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:

     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!

   • 1856, Mark Napier, Memoirs of the Marquis of Montrose, volume second, Edinburgh: Thomas G. Stevenson, […]; London: Hamilton, Adams & Co., page 587:

     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; […]”

   • 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:

     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.

   • 1930, The International Studio, page 77:

     While the survey goes far beyond the upwards of four-score plates, they make it possible to check the argument at all crucial points.