Sexts
noun, Ecclesiastical.
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the fourth of the seven canonical hours, or the service for it, originally fixed for the sixth hour of the day taken as noon.
noun, Digital Technology.
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the sending of sexually explicit photos, images, text messages, or e-mails by using a cell phone or other mobile device.
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(mainly RC Church) the fourth of the seven canonical hours of the divine office or the prayers prescribed for it: originally the sixth hour of the day (noon)
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(RC Church) an official compilation of decretals issued by Boniface VIII in 1298 to supplement the five books of the Liber Extra. It forms part of the Corpus Juris Canonici In full Liber Sextus
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adjective 1. consisting of six parts; sexpartite. 2. six times as great or as many. 3. Music. characterized by six beats or pulses to the measure: sextuple rhythm. verb (used with or without object), sextupled, sextupling. 4. to make or become six times as great. noun 1. a quantity or number six times as great […]
- Sextuplet
noun 1. a group or combination of six things. 2. one of six offspring born at one birth. 3. sextuplets, six children or offspring born of one pregnancy. 4. Music. a group of six notes of equal value performed in the same time normally taken to perform four. noun 1. one of six offspring born […]
- Sextuplex
adjective 1. sixfold; sextuple.
- Sextuplicate
[noun, adjective seks-too-pli-kit, -tyoo-, -tuhp-li-; verb seks-too-pli-keyt, -tyoo-, -tuhp-li-] /noun, adjective sɛksˈtu plɪ kɪt, -ˈtyu-, -ˈtʌp lɪ-; verb sɛksˈtu plɪˌkeɪt, -ˈtyu-, -ˈtʌp lɪ-/ noun 1. a group, series, or set of six identical copies: The application is to be submitted in sextuplicate. adjective 2. having or consisting of six identical parts; sixfold. 3. sixth. verb […]
- Sex-typed
adjective 1. characterized as appropriate for or of one sex rather than the other