hexameron

plural hexamerons · alternative Hexameron · alternative hexæmeron · alternative hexaëmeron · alternative hexaemeron · alternative hexahemeron

1. lifestyleThe six days in which God created the world according to the biblical creation story.

   He drew melancholy comparisons from Nature: men were compared to wandering clouds that dissolve into nothing, to wavering shadows, and shipwrecked beings, etc. His homilies on the Hexameron, too, shew thought of Nature.

   1905, Alfred Biese, The Development of the Feeling for Nature In the Middle Ages and Modern Times, page 34

2. lifestyleThe narrative in the Book of Genesis describing the events of the hexameron.
3. literatureA treatise or sermon concerning the biblical creation story.

plural Hexamerons

1. Alternative letter-case form of hexameron.