sextinet

[A false Latin-seeming form, with sense of E. sixteenth.] Sixteenth. From that moment to this sextine centurie (or, let me not be taken with a lye, five hundred ninety-eight, that wants but a paire of yeares to make me a true man) they [the sands] would no more live under the yoke the sea. Nashe , Lenten Stuffe (Harl. Misc., VI. 150). [Nashe seems to have considered that 1598 belonged to the fifteenth century - an erroneous nomenclature which has only of recent years pa ed into complete desuetude.] sext invariant (seks-tin-vā'ri-ant), n. [ t ( ic ) + invariant . ] An invariant of the sixth degree in the coefficients. sext i partite (seks'ti-pär-tīt), a. [ sext us , sixth, + part it us , pp. of partire , divide.] Made into six parts; consisting of six parts; sexpartite. sextiply (seks'ti-pli), v . t .; pret. and pp. sext i plied , ppr. sex tip lying . [Irreg. (after multiply , etc.) sext us , sixth, + plicare , fold.] To multiply sixfold. A treble paire doth our late wracke repaire, And sex tip lies our mirth for one mishappe. Davies , Microcosmos, p. 6. ( Davies .)