sextainn.

Brit.

/ˈsɛksteɪn/, U.S.

/ˈsɛkˌsteɪn/

Forms: 1600s sestain, 1600s– sextain.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: sextine n.

Etymology: Alteration of sextine n., after quatrain n., quintain n.², etc. Compare earlier sixain n. Compare also earlier sestine n.

In early use: = sestina n. Later also more generally: any stanza or poem consisting of six lines.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > lyric poem > [noun] > lyric of fixed verse form > sestina

sestinea1586

sextine1598

sextain1616

sestina1838

1616 W. Drummond Poems (rev. ed.) sig. F1 (heading) Sextain.

a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 226 Sextains, Madrigals and Songs, Echoes and Equivoques.

1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Sestain, a stanza consisting of six verses.

1707 Glossographia Anglicana Nova (at cited word) Sextain, a Stanza of six Verses.

1807 E. Bridges Censura Literaria V. 375 The verses in praise of the book are a sonnet signed ‘Ro. Bacchus’, and a sextain signed ‘Tho. Talkinghame, Gentleman’.

1846 J. Campbell Lives Lord Chancellors VI. cxc. 687 The company insisted on his inditing some verses, for which they maintained he had a genius. He extemporised this sextain:—‘Tom Erskine was once a sailor, [etc.]’.

1872 Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. 1 466 He published ‘Aurora, containing the first fancies of the Author's youth’, a collection of love sonnets, sextains, &c., dedicated to the Countess of Argyle.

1880 Macmillan's Mag. 43 49/1 Dante..has paid him the practical compliment of imitating one of his favourite metres, viz. the sestina, or sextain.

1917 Geogr. Jrnl. 49 52 Camden's Sextain is inscribed ‘To that uncommon work of Richard Hakluyt concerning his Navigations to the lands furthest removed from us’.

1961 A. E. Mackay Univ. Self: Stud. P. Valery 174 The verses, of which there are 24 regular sextains, have the following rhyme scheme: aabccb.

1997 C. Dowsett Sayat'-Nova 274 His Ode to the River Kur begins with a sextain in monorhyme.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	sextain
释义	sextainn. Brit. /ˈsɛksteɪn/, U.S. /ˈsɛkˌsteɪn/ Forms: 1600s sestain, 1600s– sextain. Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: sextine n. Etymology: Alteration of sextine n., after quatrain n., quintain n.², etc. Compare earlier sixain n. Compare also earlier sestine n. In early use: = sestina n. Later also more generally: any stanza or poem consisting of six lines. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > lyric poem > [noun] > lyric of fixed verse form > sestina sestinea1586 sextine1598 sextain1616 sestina1838 1616 W. Drummond Poems (rev. ed.) sig. F1 (heading) Sextain. a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 226 Sextains, Madrigals and Songs, Echoes and Equivoques. 1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Sestain, a stanza consisting of six verses. 1707 Glossographia Anglicana Nova (at cited word) Sextain, a Stanza of six Verses. 1807 E. Bridges Censura Literaria V. 375 The verses in praise of the book are a sonnet signed ‘Ro. Bacchus’, and a sextain signed ‘Tho. Talkinghame, Gentleman’. 1846 J. Campbell Lives Lord Chancellors VI. cxc. 687 The company insisted on his inditing some verses, for which they maintained he had a genius. He extemporised this sextain:—‘Tom Erskine was once a sailor, [etc.]’. 1872 Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. 1 466 He published ‘Aurora, containing the first fancies of the Author's youth’, a collection of love sonnets, sextains, &c., dedicated to the Countess of Argyle. 1880 Macmillan's Mag. 43 49/1 Dante..has paid him the practical compliment of imitating one of his favourite metres, viz. the sestina, or sextain. 1917 Geogr. Jrnl. 49 52 Camden's Sextain is inscribed ‘To that uncommon work of Richard Hakluyt concerning his Navigations to the lands furthest removed from us’. 1961 A. E. Mackay Univ. Self: Stud. P. Valery 174 The verses, of which there are 24 regular sextains, have the following rhyme scheme: aabccb. 1997 C. Dowsett Sayat'-Nova 274 His Ode to the River Kur begins with a sextain in monorhyme. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1616
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