sexed (sekst)

[ Stay, Sophocles, with this tie up my sight; Let not soft nature so transform'd be (And lose her gentle sex'd human i tie) To make me see my Lord bleed. Beau. and Fl., Four Plays in One. Shamele e double sex'd hermaphrodites, Virago roaring girles. John Taylor , Works (1630). ( Nares .) sexennial (sek-sen'i-al), a . [Cf. F. sexennal ; sexennium (> It. se ennio = Sp. sexenio = Pg. sexennio ), a period of six years, sex , six, + ann us , year: see six and annals .] Lasting Sexpartite Vaulting. - Nave of Bourges Cathedral, France. animals of a fiery nature according to the astrologers, commemorate the burning of his own instruments and papers in 1679. The brightest star of the constellation is of magnitude 4.5. Also called Uranies Sextans, and Sextant.