Citations:duodecimate

Adjective: forms the second name in some species
English citations
 * 1966, Kenneth Frederick Gordon Hosking and Godfrey John Shrimpton [eds.], Present Views of Some Aspects of the Geology of Cornwall and Devon: A Series of Papers Compiled to Commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the Inauguration of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall (Royal Geological Society of Cornwall), page 69
 * At Penfoot (SX 302833) the upper horizons have yielded Gattendorfia subinvoluta, G. crassa, G. tenuis and G. occlusa together with the trilobites Cyrtosymbole (Macrobole) drewerensis, and C. (Macrobole) duodecimate.


 * 1851, Matthew LaRue Perrine Thompson, The Church, Its Ministry and Worship, pages 93,⁽¹⁾ 95,⁽²⁾ and 113–114⁽³⁾
 * ⁽¹⁾ There seems to be no room for doubt, that such was the impression of Peter, when he interested himself in the election of Matthias, to fill up the duodecimate broken by the fall of Judas. He evidently regarded the place of the apostate in the light of a vacancy. But how or why a vacancy, except on the supposition that twelve was known to be the fixed and definite number of the apostolic college?
 * ⁽²⁾ We affirm, that to all eternity the apostles are to be twelve, among all the redeemed, a conspicuous, glorious, unassociated duodecimate.
 * ⁽³⁾ Admitting, what we have shown was not true, that he was a genuine apostle, there is no ground whatever, on which his appointment can be made to appear in the light of a precedent; for he was appointed to fill a vacancy in the duodecimate, and he did not receive the office by transfer, or communication, but by an immediate divine designation. We ourselves will cheeerfully acknowledge the authority of all apostles, we care not what the number of them may be, who can be shown to have received their office in the way that it is pretended Matthias received his. Episcopalians gain nothing, not even for their principle of succession, until they can show that an apostle was appointed, not to fill a place in the original duodecimate, but to fill a new place, and that he received his authority from those who were already apostles, by virtue of authority vested in them.
 * 1924, The Pharmaceutical Era (D. O. Haynes & Co.), volume 59, page 565
 * There was there impanelled to serve as jurors the following duodecimate of “impartial and unwitting persons”: […]