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sixtieth, a. and n.|ˈsɪkstɪɛθ|
Forms: 1 syx-, sixtiᵹeþa, sixteoᵹoða, 4 zixtiaȝte, sixtithe, sextid, 6 syxteth, sixteth, Sc. saxtieth, 6– sixtieth.
[OE. sixteoᵹoða, etc., f. sixtiᵹ sixty.]
A. adj. The ordinal numeral belonging to the cardinal sixty.
c960Rule of St. Benet (Schröer) 37 Ðy feorþan dæᵹe se þreo and syxtiᵹeða and se feower and syxtiᵹeþa [sealm]. c1000ælfric Gram. (Z.) 283 Sexagesimus, se sixteoᵹoða. 1340Ayenb. 234 Þo þet byeþ in wodewe-hod habbeþ þet zixtiaȝte frut. 1382Wyclif 1 Macc. x. 1 In the hundrid and sixtithe ȝeer Alisaundre..stiede vp. 1530Palsgr. 372 Soixantiesme, syxteth. 1579Fulke Heskins' Parl. 527 The Sixtieth Chapter treateth vpon this text. a1700Evelyn Diary 30 Oct. 1680, Now I ariv'd at my sixtieth year. 1755Johnson, Second,..the sixtieth part of a minute. 1879St. George's Hosp. Rep. IX. 77 The temperature became normal by the sixtieth [day]. 1892Gladstone in Pall Mall G. 24 June 7/2 In this, the sixtieth year of my public life.
B. n. A sixtieth part.
1800Phil. Trans. XCI. 61 It would be expected that the image should be diminished about one-sixtieth. 1823J. Badcock Dom. Amusem. 145 The addition of..potash..in the proportion of one-sixtieth is always necessary. 1841Penny Cycl. XXI. 320/1, 48-sixtieths of a minute. |