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单词 sexpartite
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sexpartiteadj.

Brit. /sɛksˈpɑːtʌɪt/, U.S. /sɛksˈpɑrˌtaɪt/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: sex- comb. form, partite adj.
Etymology: < sex- comb. form + partite adj., after classical Latin sexpertītus. Compare earlier sextipartite adj. at sexti- comb. form . Compare also earlier bipartite adj., tripartite adj., etc.
Now chiefly Architecture.
Divided into or consisting of six parts; done or made by six parties.
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a1654 J. Selden England's Epinomis viii. 25 in Tracts (1683) Here was the infancy of that form of Circuits by Justices in Eyre, whose names and described limits my Author in a Sexpartite division hath remembred.
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. i. xiv. 36 In respect to their Number, the Stigma may be Sexpartite, divided into six Parts.
1775 J. Jenkinson Linnæus' Generic & Specific Descr. Brit. Plants 234 The cup is monophyllous, sex-partite, campanulated.
1830 W. Whewell Archit. Notes German Churches 25 A roof consisting of six cells, which may be called, therefore, sexpartite.
1872 Times 18 Apr. 7/5 It is groined in sexpartite groining, with stone ribs and red brick vaulting.
1948 Biol. Bull. 94 107 The schema outlined for [the ciliate] A[ncistruma] isseli does not call for specimens with quinquepartite or sexpartite macronuclei.
1961 J. Fitchen Constr. Gothic Cathedrals 217/2 Sexpartite vaults were not entirely superseded by quadripartite vaults in the great cathedrals of the thirteenth century.
2007 Building Design (Nexis) 13 July 22 One's eyes are drawn to the vaulted ceiling, a simple, sexpartite structure of eight stone ribs.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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