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sextated

sextated is the simple past and past participle of sextate.

Meaning of sextate

Verb

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

  1. (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
  2. (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

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Questions about sextated

What is sextated the simple past and past participle of?
Sextated is the simple past and past participle of sextate.

Words near sextated in the dictionary

  1. sextarius
  2. sextariuses
  3. sextary
  4. sextastic
  5. sextate
  6. sextated
  7. sextates
  8. sextating
  9. sexte
  10. sexted
  11. sextee

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