单词 | senary |
释义 | † senaryn. Obsolete. 1. [= senarius (numerus).] The number six; a set or sequence of six things; in the 17th cent. often, the six days of the Creation. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > [noun] > period of specific number of days > six days of the Creation senary1570 the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > six > [noun] > group of six sixsome?a1400 senary1570 sextet1858 1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. x. f. 280v Hetherto hath bene spoken of sixe Senarys, of which the first Senary [sc. of propositions] contayneth the production of irrationall lines by composition. 1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. x. f. 282v Here beginneth the Senaries by substraction. 1653 H. More Second Lash of Alazonomastix (1713) 16 Wherefore God having thus compleated his work in the Senary, comprehending the whole Creation in Six orders of things, he ceased from ever creating any thing more. 1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica ii. xiv. 339 They will bring you Cold and Heat, Calm and Storm,..in one Senary of Days. 1693 Mr. Paschall in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 816 I divided the Νυχθήμερον into four Senaries of Hours. 2. Prosody. = senarius n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [noun] > variety of > hexameter > types of hexameter senarius1540 senary1579 senarian1803 pythiambic1832 perissosyllabic hexameter1889 1579 G. Harvey Two Other Lett. (1580) 64 This foote [sc. the trochee]..is..quite thrust out of doores in a pure and iust Senarie. 1828 Classical Jrnl. 37 127 Ἀλλ' ὅμως are words frequently employed by Euripides at the end of an Iambic senary. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2021). senaryadj. Pertaining to the number six. senary scale: the scale of arithmetical notation of which the radix is six. senary division: division into six parts. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > six > [adjective] > relating to number six senary1661 sexenary1815 1661 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 2) Senarie, that contains or belongs to the number six. 1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Senary, that which consists of Six. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Senary, belonging to the number six; containing six. 1810 P. Barlow in Jrnl. Nat. Philos. Mar. 183 Thus, in the binary scale only two characters are wanted, namely 1 and 0; in the senary, six; in the decimal, ten. 1810 P. Barlow in Jrnl. Nat. Philos. Mar. 186 Transform 11111 to the senary scale. 1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 81 The Cephalotus of Labillardière, offers a remarkable exception to the usual characters..in the senary division of its flower [etc.]. 1881 H. Bauerman Textbk. Syst. Mineral. ii. 11 The only other class of symmetry possible in crystals is senary or hexagonal, corresponding to a rotation of one-sixth of a revolution, such as that of a regular hexagonal prism about its axis. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < |
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