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23d (not comparable)

1. Obsolete form of 23rd.
   • 1747, The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer

     On the 23d, the Besiegers sprung a Mine under the Salient Angle, upon the Right of the Half Moon, which had the desired Success, the Enemy's Gallery on that Side, and the Mason-Work of the Counterscarp, being thereby demolished.

   • 1791, John Long, Voyages and Travels (2006 reprint), page 132:

     ...we baled up our peltry, and on the 23d of May left Lac la Mort, with four small birch canoes richly laden with the skins of beavers, otters, martens, minx, loup serviers, beaver eaters, foxes, bears, &c.

   • 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter IV, in Emma: […], volume I, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, OCLC 1708336, page 56:

     “He was four-and-twenty the 8th of last June, and my birth-day is the 23d—just a fortnight and a day’s difference! which is very odd!”

   • 1819 December, “The Pugilistic Ring”, in The Sporting Magazine or Monthly Calendar of the Transactions of the Turf, the Chase and Every Other Diversion Interesting to the Man of Pleasure, Enterprise & Spirit, volume 5 (New Series; volume 55, Old Series), number 27, London: Printed for J[ohn] Wheble & J. Pittman, […], OCLC 173729019, page 126:

     Tom Oliver thought he'd a very heavy stake in this here affair, as he was to fight Shelton, on the 23d, for a hundred.

   • 1854 August 24, USA House of Representatives, House Documents, page 143:

     On the morning of the 23d ultimo I left the harbor of Kelung, island of Formosa, for Manila, in the island of Luzon, leaving the “Supply” to sail soon for Hong Kong.

   • 1858 April 24, “My Diary. No. 3”, in John S. Dwight, editor, Dwight’s Journal of Music, a Paper of Art and Literature, volume XIII, number 4 (Whole No. 316), Boston: Oliver Ditson and Co., […], published 1859, page 28, column 1:

     Another of his works which would be very attractive is the Psalm 23d for two soprani and two alti.

   • 1870, Report of the Secretary of War, Being Part of the Message and Documents Communicated to the Two Houses of Congress at the Beginning of the Third Session of the Forty-first Congress, volume I, Washington: Government Printing Office, page 84:

     1st Cav. and h’dq’rs and 23d Inf.