sixty-sixth

[ siks-tee-siksth ]

/ ˈsɪks tiˈsɪksθ /

next after the sixty-fifth; being the ordinal number for 66.

being one of 66 equal parts.

a sixty-sixth part, especially of one (1/66).

the sixty-sixth member of a series.

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Question 1 of 7

anchorite

He was in the sixty-sixth year of his age, and had seen a great deal of service in India.
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850.|Various
The comic poet had already reached his sixty-sixth year; the Abbé was young.
Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men|Francois Arago
He was the sixty-sixth applicant Roger had seen that morning.
The Space Pioneers|Carey Rockwell
He died (of bronchitis) on the 13th of March, 1856, in his sixty-sixth year.
English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century.|Graham Everitt

He was in his sixty-sixth year when he died; and his reign of blood had lasted thirty-four years.
The Browning Cyclopdia|Edward Berdoe