heighth
English
Etymology
From Old English hēahþu, hēhþu, hīehþu, equivalent to high + -th. Cognate with Dutch hoogte (“height”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /haɪθ/, /haɪtθ/
- Rhymes: -aɪθ, -aɪtθ
Noun
heighth (plural heighths)
- (obsolete outside US dialectal, now proscribed) Alternative form of height
- 1636, Peter Ramus, Peter Bedwell, transl., The Way To Geometry: [Being Necessary and Usefull for Astronomers, Enginees, Geographers,. Architects, Land-meaters, Carpenters, Sea-men & Etc.], pages 277-278:
- And from hence also shall be the geodesy of the Icosaedrum. For the finding out of the heighth of the pyramis, there is the semidiagony of the side of the decangle and the halfe ray of the circle: But the side of the decangle is a right line subtending the halfe periphery of the side of the quinquangle, or else the greater segment of the ray proportionally cut.
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- Till this mishapen trunks aspiring head
- 'Be circled in a glorious Diadem --
- But then 'tis fixt on such an heighth, O!...
- 1809, James Grey Jackson, An Account of the Empire of Marocco (London 1809, p. 169)
- The heighth of the celestial happiness is to see God (...).
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