sextating
sextating is the present participle and gerund of sextate.
Meaning of sextate
Verb
sextate (third-person singular simple present sextates, present participle sextating, simple past and past participle sextated)
- 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
- 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
Questions about sextating
- What is sextating the present participle and gerund of?
- Sextating is the present participle and gerund of sextate.
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