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单词 sext
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sextn.1

Brit. /sɛkst/, U.S. /sɛkst/
Forms: late Middle English syxt, late Middle English (in a late copy) 1500s– sext, late Middle English–1700s sexte.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from German. Etymons: Latin sexta; Latin sextus; German Sexte, Sext.
Etymology: In sense 1a < classical Latin sexta the sixth hour, in post-classical Latin also denoting the third of the lesser canonical hours (5th cent.; frequently from 10th cent. in British sources), use as noun (short for sexta hōra the sixth hour) of feminine of sextus sixth (see below). In sense 1b < post-classical Latin sextus (from 14th cent. in British sources), use as noun (short for sextus liber sixth book) of masculine of classical Latin sextus sixth (see below). In sense 2 < German Sexte (also Sext) sixth (musical interval) (1795 or earlier) or its etymon classical Latin sexta sixth part, use as noun (short for sexta pars sixth part) of feminine of sextus sixth < sex six (see sex- comb. form) + -tus, suffix forming ordinal numerals.With sense 1a compare Middle French, French sexte (1433), Catalan sesta (13th cent.), Spanish siesta (see siesta n.1), Portuguese sesta (13th cent.), Italian sesta (14th cent.); also Middle Dutch sexte (Dutch sext ), Middle Low German sext , sexte , Middle High German sexte (German Sext ), Old Swedish sext (Swedish sext ). Compare earlier noon n., midday n. 2.
1. Christian Church.
a. One of the daily offices, or canonical hours of prayer and worship, of the Western Church, traditionally said (or chanted) at the sixth hour of the day (about midday).Formerly also known as midday (see midday n. 2).Prime, terce, sext, and none together constitute the Little Hours.
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society > faith > worship > canonical hours > sext (noon) > [noun]
middayOE
midday songOE
sextc1450
c1450 (?c1425) St. Elizabeth of Spalbeck in Anglia (1885) 8 118 Atte a dewe oure, and, as me meniþ, bytwix sexte & noon.
c1450 ( Nightingale (Calig.) l. 342 in O. Glauning Minor Poems J. Lydgate (1900) 13 Sygnyfinge all the tydes..Whech that haue be fro tierce vnto syxt.
1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 11 I wil now go forth, for I haue yete to saye my sexte, none, and myn euensonge.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. KKKiiv All the seruice of god & houres canonicall..matynes, prime, tierce, sexte, none, euynsong, & complyn.
1737 R. Challoner Catholick Christian Instructed xxii. 212 Terce, Sext, and None, begin with Pater, Ave, &c.
1805 R. Southey Ballads & Metr. Tales in Poet. Wks. VI. 118 'Tis the hour of noon..And the Sexts are begun.
1877 J. D. Chambers Divine Worship Eng. 195 On Ash Wednesday, after Sext there might be a Sermon.
1898 C. Wordsworth Mediæval Services 28 On Sundays and semi-doubles at Lincoln Terce was followed by High Mass; and Sext and None then were sung after the Mass.
1904 F. Rolfe Hadrian VII Proomion 42 The cardinal opened his breviary at Sext; and made the sign of the cross.
1969 R. Godden In this House of Brede ii. 71 Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers, Compline; seven times a day—and the long office of Matins..the great night vigil of the Church.
1998 Church Times 1 May 11/5 Three times a week they had a sermon from him, not to speak of the ‘sermonet’ after sext on Wednesdays and Fridays.
b. With capital initial. The sixth book added to the Decretals by Pope Boniface VIII (c1235–1303). Frequently with the.In quots. 1556 and 1605: any one of the papal decrees contained within this book.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > law > canon law > [noun] > ecclesiastical or papal decrees forming part of > sixth book added to
sext1554
1554 D. Lindsay Dialog Experience & Courteour in Wks. (1931) 4333 Thow moste go luke the Canon law, Boith in the Sext and Clementene.
1556 J. Ponet Apol. Answeringe Bk. S. Gardiner & Other Papists (new ed.) vi. 104 Haue not the popes of lyke sort set out there decrees decretals Sext, Clementines, and Extra Vagants, the lawes & doctrines wherof they requier to be obseruid as the gospell?
1605 G. Babington Certaine Considerations drawne from Canons of Last Sinod 28 All canons, decrees, decretall, sextes, clementines, extravagants and all other whatsoever constitutions and ordinances, Papall, being strangers and aliens from the common wealth of England,..are forbidden at this day to be attempted, alleadged, claimed or put in vre.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Sexte, a part of the Canon Law, added to the decretals.
a1763 R. Brookes & J. Collyer Dict. World (1772) at Boniface VIII This pope canonized St. Lewis in 1297, instituted the jubilee to be observed every hundred years in 1300, and caused the sixth books of the Decretals to be collected, which he called the Sexte.
1790 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (new ed.) XII. lxix. 302 See the bull of Gregory X. approbante sacro concilio, in the Sexte of the Canon Law.
1883 Catholic Dict. (1897) 115/1 Of these five collections—namely, the Decretals, the Sext, the Clementines, the Extravagants of John XXII., and the Extravagants Common—the ‘Corpus Juris Ecclesiastici’ is made up.
1901 Eng. Hist. Rev. 16 35 I proposed to speak of those three law-books which (whatever else we may think of them) were unquestionably issued by popes—namely, the Liber Extra, the Sext, and the Clementines.
1995 Jewish Q. Rev. 85 411 The original decretal letter about these relapsi..is that of Nicholas IV, issued in May, 1288, not about 1298, the date of the Sext.
2. Music. rare.
a. An organ stop of two ranks of pipes having an interval of a sixth between them. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > stop > mixture-stops > specific
cornet1660
clarionc1670
sesquialtera1688
sesquialter1841
cymbal1852
harmonica1852
plein jeu1855
sext1855
fourniture1876
rauschpfeife1876
tertian1876
zimbel1888
cornet-stop-
1855 E. J. Hopkins & E. F. Rimbault Organ (Gloss.) 439 Sexte, sixth, a II rank mutation stop, sounding the interval of a major sixth. A Twelfth and Tierce on one slider..2 2/3 ft.
1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 395/1 Sext,..the name of an organ stop of two ranks, having the interval of a sixth between them, namely, a twelfth and tierce.
b. = sixth n. 2.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > interval > [noun] > sixth
sixth1597
hexachord1694
sices1737
sext1876
1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 395/1 Sext, a sixth.
1948 L. Baldwin Listener's Anthol. Music II. v. 316 The second part of this Variation develops the looking-glass canon on the sext.
2001 Galpin Soc. Jrnl. 54 114 If..No. 2..is a quint sackbut, No. 1 must be a sext instrument a sixth below the tenor.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

sextn.2

Brit. /sɛkst/, U.S. /sɛkst/
Origin: Formed within English, by blending. Etymons: sex n.1, text n.1
Etymology: Blend of sex n.1 and text n.1 (compare text n.1 Additions).
A sexually explicit or suggestive message or image sent electronically, typically using a mobile phone.Earliest in attributive use.
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2001 Sun 22 Nov. 37/2 (heading) Embarrassed by a ‘sext’ message.
2005 Daily Tel. (Austral.) (Nexis) 2 July 87 Three women, from different continents, have accused him of harassing them with unwanted calls or sexts.
2010 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 6 Jan. d3/3 The ‘sexts’, texts, videos and blogs of yesteryear can haunt us like tattered vagrant ghosts.
2013 L. Davis Love @ First Click xi. 180 Amp up your sexts by describing what you'd do together, mentioning favorite body parts and scenarios where your guy or gal is the star of your fantasy.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

sextv.

Brit. /sɛkst/, U.S. /sɛkst/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: sext n.2
Etymology: < sext n.2, after text v. Compare earlier sexting n.
transitive. To send (a person) a sexually explicit or suggestive message or image electronically, typically using a mobile phone; to send or exchange (sexually suggestive or explicit content) in this way. Also intransitive. Cf. sext n.2
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2007 Daily Star 19 Oct. 21 (caption) [She] claimed she was ‘sexted’ by [the football player].
2009 N.Z. Herald 1 Mar. 35/4 How do you sext someone?
2011 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 27 Mar. (Front section) 1/4 The primary reason teenagers sext is to look cool and sexy to someone they find attractive.
2011 E. Aboujaoude Virtually You vii. 178 Twenty-two percent of all teenage girls surveyed said they have posted online, e-mailed, or sexted nude or seminude images of themselves.
2013 L. Olukemi in O. Lala et al. First Steps to Flight 3 We would talk on the phone for hours and then text and sext the rest of the day.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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