† sexiousadj.
Obsolete.
Perhaps: sectarian (cf. sex n.2).Apparently an isolated use.
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a1593 C. Marlowe Massacre at Paris (c1600) sig. C5 To ouerthrow those sexious Puritans.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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adj.a1593- to play the goodfellow
- to play the harlot
- to play the harlot formerly also harlots
- to play the hobby-horse
- to play the hobbyhorse
- to play the hop
- to play the jack
- to play the jacks
- to play the knave
- to play the loon
- to play the lord of the manor
- to play the lubber
- to play the man
- to play the merchant with
- to play the mischief
- to play the mischief with
- to play the murphy
- to play the naught
- to play the nought
- to play the numbers
- to play the odd
- to put the etc hand to
- to put the fear of god into
- to put the final hand to
- to put the finger on