sextate

UK/ˈsɛksteɪt/

sextate verb: reduce by one sixth.

Verb

sextate (third-person singular simple present sextates, present participle sextating, simple past and past participle sextated)

(rare) Reduce by one sixth.
- Becauſe ſix ſignified Full, the Word to ſextate (to divide into ſix, of to give a ſixth Part) originated thence, by which in a ſpiritual Senſe is ſignified that which is complete and entire, as That they ſhould Sextate an Ephah out of an Homer of Barley, (i. e. take a Sixth of an Ephah) Ezek. xlv....1791, Emanuel Swedenborg, The Apocalypſe Revealed, II, page 101
(rare) Reduce to one sixth.
- Becauſe ſix ſignified Full, the Word to ſextate (to divide into ſix, of to give a ſixth Part) originated thence, by which in a ſpiritual Senſe is ſignified that which is complete and entire, as That they ſhould Sextate an Ephah out of an Homer of Barley, (i. e. take a Sixth of an Ephah) Ezek. xlv....1791, Emanuel Swedenborg, The Apocalypſe Revealed, II, page 101
- By sextating, or leaving but a sixth part of Gog, is signified the total destruction of every truth derived from good in such a church.1883, Thomas Goyder et al., The Science of Correspondences Elucidated, 6th edition, page 450

sextate (not comparable)

(rare) sixfold; In groups of six.
- De Toni’s placing the quadrate form in Amphitetras and the sextate in Nothoceratium is of course indefensible.1907, Albert Mann, Percy Leroy Ricker, Report on the Diatoms of the Albatross Voyages in the Pacific Ocean, 1888–1904, page 293
(rare) sixfold degenerate
- The room temperature magnetic moments of these complexes were determined by the Gouy method and the values are in the range 5.7—5.9 B.M. (Table), indicative of the presence of five unpaired electrons and the sextate ground state level in these complexes.1967, Journal of the Indian Chemical Society, XLIV:ii, page 990

sextate

(rare, spectroscopy) A group of six peaks or lines
- Mössbauer spectrum of pure γ− Fe₂O₃ (figure-1) shows a broadened sextate due to the presence of two subspectra.1981, Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy: Physical sciences, I, page 199
- The spectrum could be best fitted with one sextate having broad lines which indicate the presence of more than one crystallographically nonequivalent iron sites.1987, Minoru Takahashi et al., editors, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Physics of Magnetic Materials, Sendai, Japan, April 8–11, 1987, page 392

Sextate (uncountable)

third-person singular present	sextates
present participle	sextating
past participle	sextated
past	sextated

Latin sextus (“sixth”) + English -ate; compare quintate, septimate, and decimate

What does sextate mean?: Sextate means reduce by one sixth.
What part of speech is sextate?: Sextate can be a verb, an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce sextate?: Sextate is pronounced /ˈsɛksteɪt/ (UK).
What is the past tense of sextate?: The past tense of sextate is sextated.

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