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sexagenarian, a. and n.|ˌsɛksədʒɪˈnɛərɪən|
[f. L. sexāgēnāri-us: see sexagenary and -ian.]
A. adj. Of the age of sixty years. Also, characteristic of one sixty years old.
1862T. A. Trollope Marietta I. ii. 27 A sexagenarian sire. 1889Gunter That Frenchman iii. 28 He gives a sexagenarian nudge to his companion.
B. n. A person sixty years old.
1738Chambers Cycl. (ed. 2) s.v. Sexagenary, Some casuists dispense with sexagenarians for not fasting. 1826Syd. Smith Wks. (1859) II. 88 The rouged cheek of the sexagenarian. 1870Disraeli Lothair xxxv, Your enamoured sexagenarians.
Hence ˌsexageˈnarianism, the state of being sixty years old.
1876Hardy Ethelberta xlii, The sort of sexagenarianism beside which a young woman's happiness can sometimes contrive to keep itself alive in a quiet sleepy way. |