adv. [f. TWELFTH a.] In the twelfth place; as the twelfth in a series.

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c. 1532.  Du Wes, Introd. Fr., in Palsgr., 929.

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a. 1642.  Sir W. Monson, Naval Tracts, III. (1704), 322/1. Twelfthly, They should make quarterly Payments.

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1644.  Prynne & Walker, Fiennes’s Trial, 82. Twelfely, Might not every Governour and Generall upon this pretence deliver up any Fort?

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1693.  J. Edwards, Author. O. & N. Test., 181. Twelfthly, we read in several authors [etc.].

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1787.  Pennsylvania Packet, 2 April, 3/2. Twelfthly, Because these arrearages have long since been appropriated to the redemption [printed -toin] of the bills of credit.

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1864.  Sydney Morning Herald, 14 June, 8/1. Twelfthly, an indefinite devise to trustees passes the whole fee for the testator, unless upon a trust confined to a life or lives.

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