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‖ hexaëmeron|hɛksəˈiːmərɒn|
Also hexameron.
[Late L. hexaēmeron (the title of a work by Ambrose) = Gr. ἑξαήµερον, neut. of ἑξαήµερος of or in six days, f. ἕξ six + ἡµέρα day; ἡ ἑξαήµερος was the title of a work by Basil.]
The six days of the creation; a history of the creation, as contained in Genesis; or a treatise thereon, as the works of Basil the Great and Ambrose.
a1593Harrison MS. Chronol. II. title (in Descr. Engl. 1877 i. App. i. p. xlvii), The hexameron or worke done in those sixe daies wherein the worlde was created. 1651Biggs New Disp. Pref. 11 His hebdomadal work of the Hexameron Fabrick. 1696Whiston Th. Earth iii. (1722) 259 In the first Constitution of the Expansum or Firmament on the 2nd Day of the Hexæmeron there would be Clouds. 1852C. Wordsworth Occas. Serm. Ser. iii. 19 Let us not allow our souls to dwell in a sabbath-less Hexameron of earthly care and toil. 1886W. R. Smith in Encycl. Brit. XXI. 125/2 The older account of the creation in Gen. ii...does not recognize the hexaemeron, and it is doubtful whether the original sketch of Gen. i. distributed creation over six days.
Hence hexaemeric |hɛksəiːˈmɛrɪk| a., pertaining to the six days of the creation.
1895Athenæum 19 Oct. 535/2 The hexaemeric work of creation. |