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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Sexagenary

Sex-ăg'e-na-ry or Sēx'ă-gē-na-ry, a.

adjective

a. [Lat. sexagenarius, from sexageni, sixty each, from sexaginta, sixty; Fr. sexagénaire, Sp. sexagenario, It. sexagenario.] Pertaining to, or designating, the number sixty; proceeding by sixties.

Sexagenary, or sexagesimal, scale (Math.), a scale of numbers in which the modulus is sixty, used in treating of the divisions of the circle.

Sex-ăg'e-na-ry or Sēx'a-gen-a-ry, n.

noun

n. 1. Something composed of sixty parts. 2. A person sixty years of age; a sexagenarian. The lad can sometimes be as dowff as a sexagenary like myself. W. Scott.