sexagenariann.adj.

a1646 W. Twisse Riches of Gods Love (1653) ii. ii. 63 As if he would have a young Divine to inform a Sexagenarian.

1738 E. Chambers Cycl. (ed. 2) at Sexagenary Some casuists dispense with sexagenarians for not fasting.

1755 J. Taylor Elements Civil Law 192 As Sexagenarians..They could not be compelled to execute any public Office after that Age.

1770 G. Baretti Journey London to Genoa II. lvi. 303 ‘Are you poxed, sir?’ It surprized me a little to hear the shameless sexagenarian answer in the affirmative.

1826 S. Smith Wks. (1859) II. 88 The rouged cheek of the sexagenarian.

1882 Cent. Mag. May 13/1 The collection is very curious..comprising plain walking-sticks, odd knobbed fancies of sexagenarians, queer handles, and padded arm and shoulder rests.

1905 Times 24 Feb. 5/6 He referred to Anthony Trollope's novel ‘The Fixed Period’, in which sexagenarians retire into contemplation for a year preparatory to being chloroformed.

1965 E. Dahlberg Reasons of Heart 43 Nothing remains for a sexagenarian but the dregs of lost ideals.

1992 Newsweek 25 May 94/1 The curtain parts and a preternaturally boyish sexagenarian strolls downstage.

1663 G. Harvey Archelogia Philosophica Nova II. i. xx. 134 Many sexagenarian Widowers or men of threescore years of age do alter less and flower then most women do from their five and thirtieth year.

1823 Times 18 Jan. 3/2 It was stated that the Queen had rudely laughed outright in the faces of Duchesses and Sexagenarian Princesses.

1862 T. A. Trollope Marietta I. ii. 27 A sexagenarian sire.

1889 A. C. Gunter That Frenchman! iii. 28 He gives a sexagenarian nudge to his companion.

1933 Times 8 Aug. 11/5 I have great pleasure in backing up the suggestion of your sexagenarian correspondent.

1961 J. D. Clarkson Hist. Russia vi. 99 Ivan III..entrusted to the sexagenarian artisan,..Fioraventi, the construction at Moscow of a replica of the famous Cathedral of the Assumption..at Vladimir.

2005 Metro 2 Mar. (London ed.) 23/1 The bar was rammed with sexagenarian chaps brandishing ill-advised hair-don'ts.

1824 T. F. Dibdin Libr. Compan. 482 Let his sexagenarianism go on quietly towards nonagenarianism.

1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta II. xlii. 184 The sort of sexagenarianism beside which a young woman's happiness can sometimes contrive to keep itself alive in a quiet sleepy way.

2006 Buffalo (N.Y.) News (Nexis) 28 Feb. a6 You can hardly open a paper..without finding one of the nation's 78 million baby boomers writing about their (obviously) important arrival onto the shores of sexagenarianism.