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sixth, a. and n.|sɪksθ|
Forms: α. 1 sexta (sesta, seista), 2–5 sexte (2–4 seste), 3 sæxte, 3–6 sext, 5– Sc. saxt (6 saxte). β. 1 siexta, sihsta, sixta, 2–6 sixte (2–3 siste, 4 zixte), 3–7 sixt (4 sixst); 1 syxta, 3–6 syxte, 5 zyxst, 6 syxt. γ. 6 syxthe, 7– sixth.
[OE. sexta, sixta, syxta, etc. (see six a.), = OFris. sexta (WFris. sechste, NFris. sokst), MDu. seste (Du. zesde), OS. se(h)sto (MLG. seste, soste, LG. seste, söste, soste), OHG. sehsto (MHG. sehste, G. sechste), Goth. saihsta; also OHG. sehto (MHG. sehte), ON. sétti (Icel. sjȯtti, Norw. sette, Sw. and Da. sjette).]
The ordinal numeral belonging to the cardinal six.
A. adj.
1. a. In concord with a n. expressed or implied (freq. occurring earlier in the context).
αa900O.E. Martyrol. 6 Jan. 14 On þone sextan dæᵹ þæs monðes. c950Lindisf. Gosp. Mark xv. 33 Miððy awarð tid ðio seista. c1205Lay. 13909 Þæ sæxte [god] hæhte Appollin. a1225Ancr. R. Pref. p. xxiii, The seste dale is of penitence. 13..K. Alis. 2736 (Laud MS.), Þe sexte he slouȝ of Nauere he was. c1320Deb. Body & Soul in Map's Poems (Camden) 348 The seste day ayen the dom shule foure aungles stonde. 1390Gower Conf. III. 121 After Leo Virgo the nexte Of Signes cleped is the sexte. c1400Destr. Troy 2047 Here begynnes the Sext Boke. 1549Compl. Scotl. 35 Virgil..in the sext beuk of his eneados. c1570Satir. Poems Reform. xliv. 302 That saxt chapter of Iohne. 1609Skene Reg. Maj. 43 The saxt day of November.
βc893K. ælfred Oros. i. vii. 38 Þæt syxte [wonder] wæs þæt eall þæt folc wæs on blædran. c900O.E. Chron. (Parker MS.) an. 827, Siexta [cyning] wæs Oswald se æfter him ricsode. c1000Sax. Leechdoms II. 298 Syxte mæᵹen is þæt drycræft þam men ne dereþ. c1175Lamb. Hom. 43 Þe forme [wave] wes snaw,..þe siste smorðer. a1225Ancr. R. 14 Þe sixte dole is of penitence. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 5018 He deide after martin masse riȝt þe sixte day. 1340Ayenb. 17 Þe uerste boȝ of prede is ontreuþe,..þe zixte, ypocrisie. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) IV. 59 Þe sixte tyme þe consuls of Rome..were sent aȝenst Hanibal. 1523Fitzherb. Husb. §75 The syxte [property] is, to haue great nosethrylles. 1579Fulke Heskins' Parl. 336 The sixt Chapter declareth, that Manna was a figure. 1611Bible Transl. Pref. ⁋6 Yea, there was a fift and a sixt edition. 1667Milton P.L. vii. 449 The Sixt [day], and of Creation last arose.
γ1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 14 b, Saynt Brigitte..in the syxthe boke of her reuelacyons. 1611Bible Gen. i. 31 And the euening and the morning were the sixth day. 1662Playford Skill Mus. ii. (1674) 92 The first [string]..is called the Treble;..the Sixth, the Bass. 1726Swift Gulliver ii. vi, His Majesty, in a sixth audience,..proposed many doubts. a1771Gray Dante 74 E'er the sixth Morn Had dawn'd. 1837P. Keith Bot. Lex. 404 Among anatomists we sometimes hear of a sixth sense. 1884Jrnl. Education 1 Sept. 351/1 A classical Sixth Form.
b. Following on the names of kings, popes, etc.
Very commonly, and now usually, expressed by the symbol VI, e.g. James VI.
1387Trevisa Higden VII. 151 Gregorie þe sixte,.. after Benet. 1423in Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. Var. Coll. IV. 83 The ȝere of Kyng Harry the zyxst the furste. 1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 2 Charles the Sext of that name. 1549Compl. Scotl. 86 Ther eftir henry the saxt lossit his liyf. 1588Lambarde Eirenarcha ii. iv. 160 The late K. Henry the sixt. 1641‘Smectymnuus’ Vind. xiv. 174 All the Bishops in King Edwards the sixt time. 1674Brevint Saul at Endor 227 Nothing to Pope Sixtus the 4th, nor to Alexander the sixt. 1788Gibbon Decl. & F. xlviii. V. 57 To nominate for her successor Michael the sixth. 1857Willis's Current Notes Jan. 4/2 King James the Sixth.
2. ellipt. With omission of day, house, form, former, etc.
1573Cath. Tractates (S.T.S.) 14 Writtin at Paris the sext of December. 1592tr. Junius on Rev. xi. 7 In the Sixt of the Decretals. 1631Weever Funeral Mon. To Rdr., The sixt of May. 1647Lilly Chr. Astrol. xliv. 258 Any malevolent in the sixt,..shews great danger. 1857Hughes Tom Brown Pref., By getting not only the Sixth to put it down but the lower fellows to scorn it. c1898W. Lewis Let. (1963) 6 First a fellow got a ‘sixth licking’ (stripes from every sixth in the house). 1906R. Brooke Let. 3 Feb. (1968) 39 [He] has been discovered..showing up proses done for him by a wee & terrified Sixth. 1914‘I. Hay’ Lighter Side School Life i. 5 The Head..probably takes the Sixth for an hour or two a day. 1963Sunday Times 8 Sept. 29/3 Cool Shakespeare thrives in the sixth and phrases like ‘Pox on't’..are in present usage. 1977R. Rendell Judgement in Stone vi. 50 You're no longer the naughtiest girl in the sixth.
B. n.
1. A sixth part.
1557Recorde Whetst. B ij b, A sixte more. 1611Cotgr., Sixain, a sixt, a sixt part. 1728Chambers Cycl. s.v. Measure, The Viertel, or Verge, consists of five Mingles, and one Sixth of a Mingle. 1828Sir J. E. Smith Eng. Flora II. 345 Some flowers are deficient in a sixth of all their parts. 1842Penny Cycl. XXIII. 418/2 One-sixth of its width. 1866Treas. Bot. 588/2 In some Indian species the pores are one-sixth of an inch across.
2. Mus. A tone on the sixth diatonic degree above or below another; the harmonic combination of two such tones; an interval comprising six diatonic degrees of the scale.
Different varieties are distinguished by the epithets added, augmented, French, greater, Italian, minor, Neapolitan, sharp, small.
1597T. Morley Introd. Mus. 70 A third, a Fift, a Sixt, and an eight. 1609J. Dowland Ornith. Microl. 29 Those which sound thirds, sixts, or other imperfect Concords. 1706A. Bedford Temple Mus. ix. 178 In this Tune they might ascend gradually unto a Sixth. 1752tr. Rameau's Treat. Mus. i. 3 The Third becomes a Sixth,..and..the Seventh becomes a Second. 1801Busby Dict. Mus. s.v., There are four kinds of sixths, two consonant and two dissonant. 1873H. C. Banister Music 70 The first inversion of the Triad, consisting of a note with its 3rd and 6th, is termed the Chord of the Sixth.
3. Fencing. = sixte.
1885E. Castle Schools & Masters of Fence Introd. 10 There can be as many guards as there are parries, although in modern days, carte, tierce, and sixth are almost exclusively used.
4. Anat. A nerve of the sixth cranial pair.
1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 117 Double ptosis has been frequently noted, and paralysis of both sixths sometimes.
C. Comb.
1. With ns., forming an attributive compound, as sixth-floor, sixth-form, sixth-rate (also absol. of a former class of warships).
1820T. Mitchell Aristoph. I. 232 A tub-and-cask tenant,—vulture-lodg'd—*sixth-floor man.
1807Syd. Smith P. Plymley's Lett. vi, The *sixth-form effusions of Mr. Canning. 1879L. Stephen Hours Library III. 273 Landor is precisely a glorified..edition of the model sixth-form lad.
1694Lond. Gaz. No. 3014/4 A *Sixth Rate Frigat of 26 Guns called the Drake. 1747Lind Lett. rel. Navy (1757) I. 22 Captains of sloops [have] the same [pay] with captains of a sixth rate. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Sixth-rate, a British vessel of war bearing a captain.
2. sixth day, the name given to Friday by members of the Society of Friends; sixth form: see form n. 6 b; hence sixth-former: see -former; sixth-form college, a college for pupils over the age of sixteen, chiefly providing A-level courses.
1655G. Fox Jrnl. (1694) 152 On the Sixth day of that Week I had a meeting near Colchester. 1858M. Tuckett Diary 26 Sept. in H. Fox Mariana's Diary (c 1975) 8 Sixth day morning was bright and fine. 1976Minutes Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends 30 (heading) Sixth day afternoon session, eighth month 27th.
1938C. Morgan Flashing Stream 31 He who wrote the Sonnets, or Hamlet's bidding to Ophelia..had no moderation, no smell of the sixth form, no sense of humour. 1967Listener 18 May 645/1 The eighteen-year-old emerging from our sixth forms has a level of knowledge as good as a second year student in a North American university. 1965H. L. Elvin Educ. & Contemp. Soc. ii. vii. 134 There is little doubt that the sixth form college would be welcomed by most of the young people who would go to it. 1976Times 18 Aug. 3/2 Tameside council has decided not to introduce two proposed sixth form colleges. |