sextonryt (sekstonri)

[Early mod. E. also sextenry; a contraction of sacristanry, as sexton of sacristan; The same maister retayned to hymselfe but a small lyueng, and that was the sextenry of our lady churche in Renes, wort he by yere, if he be resydent, a C. frankes. Berners, tr. of Froi art's Chron., II. cxcvii. sextonship (seks'ton-ship), n. [ sexton + ship .] The office of a sexton. sextryt (seks'tri), n . [Early mod. E. also sex tery , sextary , saxtry ; ME.sextrye , a corruption of sacristy : see sacristy .] A sacristy; vestry. A Sextry , sacrarium. Levins, Manip. Vocab., p. 105. Sextry land, land given to a church or religious house for the maintenance of a sexton or sacristan. sex tubercular (seks-tu-bėrʻkū-lär), a . [L. sex , six, + tuberculum , a boil, tubercle: see tu bercular .] Having six tubercles: as, a sextu bercular molar. Nature , XLI. 467. sextumvirate (seks-tum'vi-rāt), n. [Erroneously (after duumvirate ) for sexvirate .] The union of six men in the same office; the office or dignity held by six men jointly; also, six persons holding an office jointly. A sextumvirate to which all the ages of the world cannot add a seventh. Swift , Gulliver's Travels, iii. 7.