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▪ I. sext|sɛkst|
Also 5 sexte, syxt.
[In sense 1, ad. L. sexta (sc. hōra hour), fem. of sextus, ordinal of sex six. In sense 2, ad. L. sextus (sc. liber book). In sense 3, ad. L. sexta (sc. pars part). Cf. F. sexte, G. sexta, sexte.]
1. Eccl. The third of the lesser canonical hours; so called because belonging orig. to the sixth hour of the day (midday). Also pl. (cf. nones).
An early name was ‘midday’: see midday 1 b.
c1425St. Eliz. of Spalbeck in Anglia VIII. 118/7 Atte a dewe oure, and, as me meniþ, bytwix sexte & noon. 1446Lydg. Nightingale Poems i. 342 Sygnyfinge all the tydes,..Whech that haue be fro tierce vnto syxt. 1481Caxton Reynard v. (Arb.) 10, I will now go forth, for I haue yete to saye my sexte, none, and myn euensonge. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 164 b, All the seruyce of god & houres canonicall.., matyns, pryme, tierce, sext, none, euensonge & complyn. 1753Challoner Cath. Chr. Instr. 212 Terce, Sext, and None, begin with Pater, Ave &c. 1805Southey Ballads & Metr. T. Poet. Wks. VI. 118 'Tis the hour of noon..And the Sexts are begun. 1877J. D. Chambers Div. Worship 195 On Ash Wednesday, after Sext there might be a Sermon. 1898Chr. Wordsw. Med. Services 28 On Sundays and semi-doubles at Lincoln Terce was followed by High Mass; and Sext and None then were sung after the Mass.
2. Eccl. (With capital initial.) The sixth book added to the Decretals by Pope Boniface VIII.
1656in Blount Glossogr. 1883Cath. Dict. (1897) 115/1 Of these five collections—namely, the Decretals, the Sext, the Clementines, the Extravagants of John XXII., and the Extravagants Common—the ‘Corpus Juris Ecclesiastici’ is made up.
3. Mus.
a. An interval of a sixth.
b. An organ stop of two ranks of pipes having an interval of a sixth between them.
1876Stainer & Barrett Dict. Mus. Terms, Sext, the name of an organ stop of two ranks, having the interval of a sixth between them, namely, a twelfth and tierce.
▪ II. sext
obs. form of sixth. |