sextate

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UK, UK/ˈsɛksteɪt/

verb

Reduce by one sixth.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

sextate1

verbsextate (third-person singular simple present sextates, present participle sextating, simple past and past participle sextated)

present singular third person sextates · participle present sextating · participle past sextated · past sextated

  1. rareReduce by one sixth.
    1 more example

    Becauſe ſix ſignified Full, the Word to ſextate (to divide into ſix, of to give a ſixth Part) originated thence, by which in a ſpiritual Senſe is ſignified that which is complete and entire, as That they ſhould Sextate an Ephah out of an Homer of Barley, (i. e. take a Sixth of an Ephah) Ezek. xlv. 13. and it is ſaid of Gog, I will turn thee back, and will Sextate thee (leave but a ſixth Part of thee) Ezek. xxxix. 2. by which is ſignified, that with him all Truth of Good in the Word ſhould be totally deſtroyed; who are meant by Gog, may be ſeen N. 850.

    1791, Emanuel Swedenborg, The Apocalypſe Revealed, II, page 101
  2. rareReduce to one sixth.

    By sextating, or leaving but a sixth part of Gog, is signified the total destruction of every truth derived from good in such a church.

    1883, Thomas Goyder et al., The Science of Correspondences Elucidated, 6th edition, page 450
    1 more example

    Becauſe ſix ſignified Full, the Word to ſextate (to divide into ſix, of to give a ſixth Part) originated thence, by which in a ſpiritual Senſe is ſignified that which is complete and entire, as That they ſhould Sextate an Ephah out of an Homer of Barley, (i. e. take a Sixth of an Ephah) Ezek. xlv. 13. and it is ſaid of Gog, I will turn thee back, and will Sextate thee (leave but a ſixth Part of thee) Ezek. xxxix. 2. by which is ſignified, that with him all Truth of Good in the Word ſhould be totally deſtroyed; who are meant by Gog, may be ſeen N. 850.

    1791, Emanuel Swedenborg, The Apocalypſe Revealed, II, page 101
adjectivesextate (not comparable)
  1. not comparableraresixfold; In groups of six.

    De Toni’s placing the quadrate form in Amphitetras and the sextate in Nothoceratium is of course indefensible.

    1907, Albert Mann, Percy Leroy Ricker, Report on the Diatoms of the Albatross Voyages in the Pacific Ocean, 1888–1904, page 293
  2. not comparablerarenatural sciencessixfold degenerate

    The room temperature magnetic moments of these complexes were determined by the Gouy method and the values are in the range 5.7—5.9 B.M. (Table), indicative of the presence of five unpaired electrons and the sextate ground state level in these complexes.

    1967, Journal of the Indian Chemical Society, XLIV:ii, page 990
noun
  1. rarespectroscopyA group of six peaks or lines

    Mössbauer spectrum of pure γ− Fe₂O₃ (figure-1) shows a broadened sextate due to the presence of two subspectra.

    1981, Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy: Physical sciences, I, page 199
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    The spectrum could be best fitted with one sextate having broad lines which indicate the presence of more than one crystallographically nonequivalent iron sites.

    1987, Minoru Takahashi et al., editors, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Physics of Magnetic Materials, Sendai, Japan, April 8–11, 1987, page 392

Sextate2

nounSextate (uncountable)
  1. uncountablechemistrymethylcyclohexyl acetate

Origin

  1. Latinsextus“sixth”
  2. Englishsextate

Latin sextus (“sixth”) + English -ate; compare quintate, septimate, and decimate

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