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sextates

sextates is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 sextates

What is sextates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Sextates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of sextate.

Words near sextates in the dictionary

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

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