Meaning

(rare) Reduce by one sixth..

Definitions by Sense

1. (rare) Reduce by one sixth.
2. (rare) Reduce to one sixth.
3. (rare) sixfold; In groups of six.
4. (rare, physics) sixfold degenerate
5. (rare, spectroscopy) A group of six peaks or lines

Example Sentences

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. 13. and it is ſaid of Gog, I will turn thee back, and will Sextate thee (leave but a ſixth Part of thee) Ezek. xxxix. 2. by which is ſignified, that with him all Truth of Good in the Word ſhould be totally deſtroyed; who are meant by Gog, may be ſeen N. 850.

By sextating, or leaving but a sixth part of Gog, is signified the total destruction of every truth derived from good in such a church.

De Toni’s placing the quadrate form in Amphitetras and the sextate in Nothoceratium is of course indefensible.

The room temperature magnetic moments of these complexes were determined by the Gouy method and the values are in the range 5.7—5.9 B.M. (Table), indicative of the presence of five unpaired electrons and the sextate ground state level in these complexes.

Mössbauer spectrum of pure γ− Fe₂O₃ (figure-1) shows a broadened sextate due to the presence of two subspectra.

The spectrum could be best fitted with one sextate having broad lines which indicate the presence of more than one crystallographically nonequivalent iron sites.

Word Forms

• sextates
• sextating
• sextated

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