Definition of "thirde" [thirde]

• Obsolete spelling of third. (adjective)

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• "London: The thirde was the Minion: The fourth was the Ascension."
• "The thirde is a mixt Fable so called, bicause in it bothe man hauyng reason, and a beaste wantyng reason, or any o - ther thing wanting life, is ioyned with it, as for the example, of the fable of the woodes and the housebandman, of whom"
• "The thirde is a _Chria_ mixt, bothe _verball_ and notyng the facte, as Diogenes seyng a boie wanton & dissolute, did strike his teacher with a staffe, vtteryng these woordes: why dooest thou teache thy scholer so dissolutlie."