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sextary|ˈsɛkstərɪ|
Also in Latin form.
[ad. L. sextāri-us, f. sextus sixth: see -ary. Cf. sester, septier.]
1. An ancient Roman liquid measure containing the sixth part of a congius. Also used loosely = sester 2, septier.
1382Wyclif Lev. xiv. 10 He shal take..bisides a sextarie of oyle. 1398[see congius 1]. a1483Liber Niger in Househ. Ord. (1790) 24 One sextarie of wyne; viii gallons of ale. 1559Morwyng Evonym. Pref., It consisteth of v sextaries of water, ii sextaries of hony. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 256 Let the fasting patient..take three sextaries Warme of that milke. 1633N. Hunt Handmaid Arith. 387 The Spanish Sextarius. 1679Blount Anc. Tenures 76 A Sextary of July-Flower Wine. 1737Whiston Josephus, Antiq. viii. ii. §9 The bath is able to contain seventy-two sextaries. 1809Bawdwen Domesday Bk. York, etc. 291 Value in King Edward's time forty shillings and two sextaries of honey. 1833Penny Cycl. I. 472 The Attic amphora contained..seventy-two sextaries, equal to about two gallons, five pints and a half of English wine-measure.
2. A dry measure containing the sixteenth part of a modius. (Cf. sester 3.)
1382Wyclif Exod. xxix. 40 The fourthe part of hyn, that is a sextarye, that is a mesure of two pownd. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xix. cxxviii. (1495) 932 Sextarius is the mesure of two pounde..and is Cenix in grewe. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vii. xviii. 380 If every man of the Army had had a chenix of Corne a day, that is a sextary and halfe, or about two pints and a quarter. 1674S. Jeake Arith. (1696) 89 Whether by confounding the Attick and Roman Sextaries..I know not. 1707[see sester 3]. 1737Whiston Josephus, Antiq. ix. iv. §4 The Hebrews bought a sextary of dove's dung, instead of salt. 1837Wheelwright tr. Aristoph. Clouds ii. i, I ask..what thou thinkest the most perfect measure, The trimeter or the tetrameter? Str. I think that nought beats the half sextary.
†3. Any of the six divisions of the city of Venice. Obs.
1617Moryson Itin. i. 78 The City [of Venice]..is of old divided into six sextaries, or six parts vulgarly sestieri. 1651Howell Venice 13 Six Councellors, whose peculiar priviledg is to be chosen out of the six Precincts or Sextaries of the Citty. |