sixthadj.n.

Brit.

/sɪk(s)θ/, U.S.

/sɪksθ/

Forms:

α. (a) Old English seista (Northumbrian), Old English sesta (Anglian), Old English sexta, Old English–Middle English seste, late Old English syoxte, early Middle English sæxte (south-west midlands), early Middle English seoxta (in copy of Old English charter), Middle English seixt, Middle English sexst, Middle English sextt, Middle English–1600s sext, Middle English–1600s sexte; Scottish pre-1700 sexit, pre-1700 sexte, pre-1700 1800s sext; (b) Scottish pre-1700 saxte, pre-1700 1800s– saxt.

β. Old English siexta, Old English sihsta (rare), Old English sixfe (transmission error), Old English sixta, Old English syxsta (rare), Old English syxta, early Middle English siste, Middle English sixete, Middle English sixste, Middle English zixt (south-eastern), Middle English zixte (south-eastern), Middle English zyxst (south-western), Middle English zyxte (south-eastern), Middle English–1500s syxte, Middle English–1600s sixst, Middle English–1600s sixte, Middle English–1600s syxt, Middle English–1700s sixt; Scottish pre-1700 1900s– sixt.

γ. Middle English sexth, Middle English sexthe, Middle English sexþe, Middle English sexyth, Middle English sixsthe, Middle English sixþe, Middle English syxþe, Middle English–1500s syxth, Middle English–1500s syxthe, Middle English–1600s sixthe, Middle English– sixth, 1500s–1600s sixeth, 1500s–1600s sixtth; Scottish pre-1700 sexth, pre-1700 1700s– sixth, 1900s– saxth.

Also represented by the abbreviations 6th, 6^th, vith, vi^th, VIth, VI^th, and variants.

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.

Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian sexta (West Frisian seisde , East Frisian (Wangeroog) sext , North Frisian (Sylt) sokst ), Middle Dutch seste , sesde (Dutch zesde ), Old Saxon sehsto (Middle Low German seste , soste ), Old High German sehsto (Middle High German sehste , German sechste ), Norwegian regional sekste , Old Danish (rare) sæxte (Danish regional (South Jutland) sæjst ), Gothic saihsta , and (without -s- ) Old High German sehto (Middle High German sehte ), Old Icelandic sétti (Icelandic sjötti ), Norwegian sjette , Old Swedish sätte , siätte (Swedish sjätte ), Old Danish sætæ , siætæ (Danish sjette ) < the Germanic base of six adj. + the Germanic base of -th suffix² (forms without -s- perhaps reflect the original Proto-Germanic form of the ordinal, whereas forms with -s- a later form with remodelling after the cardinal); compare similarly Sanskrit ṣaṣṭhá-, Avestan xštuua-, ancient Greek ἕκτος, (Cretan) ϝέκτος, classical Latin sextus, Early Irish sessed, Welsh chweched, Old Church Slavonic šestŭ, Old Prussian uschts, wuschts, Lithuanian šeštas.For discussion of forms see six adj. and n. The α. and β. forms in their suffixation show continuation of original Indo-European *-t- , unshifted because it was protected by the preceding consonant (compare early forms of fifth adj., eleventh adj., twelfth adj.); the γ. forms show alteration of final -t to -th after fourth adj., seventh adj., eighth adj., ninth adj., tenth adj., etc. See discussion at -th suffix².

The ordinal numeral corresponding to the cardinal six adj. and n.

A. adj.

a. With modified noun expressed or implied (frequently occurring earlier in the context).

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > six > [adjective] > sixth

sixthc893

sixc1385

half-dozenth1840

α.

a900 Old Eng. Martyrol. 6 Jan. 14 On þone sextan dæg þæs monðes.

c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Mark xv. 33 Miððy awarð tid ðio seista.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 14 Þe seste [dale is] of penitence.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 6941 Þæ sæxte [c1300 Otho sixte][god] hæhte Appollin.

c1320 Deb. Body & Soul in Map's Poems (Camden) 348 The seste day ayen the dom shule foure aungles stonde.

1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 121 After Leo Virgo the nexte Of Signes cleped is the sexte.

a1400 K. Alis. (Laud) 2736 Þe sexte he slouȝ of Nauere he was.

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 2047 Here begynnes the Sext Boke.

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) v. 27 Virgil..in the sext beuk of his eneados.

c1570 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xliv. 302 That saxt chapter of Iohne.

1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem 43 The saxt day of November.

β. c893 tr. Orosius Hist. i. vii. 38 Þæt syxte [wonder] wæs þæt eall þæt folc wæs on blædran.c900 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Parker MS.) an. 827 Siexta [cyning] wæs Oswald se æfter him ricsode.c1000 Sax. Leechdoms II. 298 Syxte mægen is þæt drycræft þam men ne dereþ.c1175 Lamb. Hom. 43 Þe forme [wave] wes snaw,..þe siste smorðer.a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 6 Þe sixte dole is of penitence.1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 5018 He deide after martin masse riȝt þe sixte day.1340 Ayenbite (1866) 17 Þe uerste boȝ of prede is ontreuþe,..þe zixte, ypocrisie.a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 59 Þe sixte tyme þe consuls of Rome..were sent aȝenst Hanibal.?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxxi The sixt [property] to haue great nose thyrlles.1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 336 The sixt Chapter declareth, that Manna was a figure.1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. ⁋6 Yea, there was a fift and a sixt edition.1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 449 The Sixt [day], and of Creation last arose. γ. ?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) I. lf. 127^v At the fyfthe and syxthe dayes folowyng, hercules toke his bowe and his arowes And wente in to the place that was ordeyned.1611 Bible (King James) Gen. i. 31 And the euening and the morning were the sixth day. 1654 J. Playford Breefe Introd. Skill Musick 29 The first [string] is called the Treble,..the sixth, the Basse.1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. vi. 111 His Majesty, in a sixth Audience..proposed many Doubts.a1771 T. Gray tr. Dante in Wks. (1884) I. 160 E'er the sixth Morn Had dawn'd.1837 P. Keith Bot. Lexicon 404 Among anatomists we sometimes hear of a sixth sense.1884 Jrnl. Education 1 Sept. 351/1 A classical Sixth Form.

b. Following on the names of kings, popes, etc.Very commonly, and now usually, expressed by the symbol VI, e.g. James VI.

ΚΠ

1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. VII. 151 Gregorie þe sixte,.. after Benet.

1423 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Var. Coll. (1907) IV. 83 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 3218) LXIV. 1 The zere of Kyng' Harry the zyxst the furste.

c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 2 Charles the sext of that name.

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) xi. 68 Ther eftir henry the saxt lossit his liyf.

1588 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha (new ed.) ii. iv. 160 The late K. Henry the sixt.

1641 ‘Smectymnuus’ Vindic. Answer Hvmble Remonstr. xiv. 174 All the Bishops in King Edwards the sixt time.

1674 D. Brevint Saul & Samuel 227 Nothing to Pope Sixtus the 4th, nor to Alexander the sixt.

1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. xlviii. 57 To nominate for her successor Michael the sixth.

1857 Willis's Current Notes Jan. 4/2 King James the Sixth.

2. elliptical. With omission of day, house, form, former, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > six > [noun] > that which is sixth

sixth1573

society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [adjective] > form or class

third form1687

upper1856

sixth1857

mainstream1974

1573 Catholic Tractates (S.T.S.) 14 Writtin at Paris the sext of December.

1592 tr. F. Du Jon Apocalypsis xi. 7 In the Sixt of the Decretals.

1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments To Rdr. The sixt of May.

1647 W. Lilly Christian Astrol. xliv. 258 Any malevolent in the sixt,..shews great danger.

1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days Pref. By getting not only the Sixth to put it down but the lower fellows to scorn it.

c1898 W. Lewis Lett. (1963) 6 First a fellow got a ‘sixth licking’ (stripes from every sixth in the house).

1906 R. Brooke Let. 3 Feb. (1968) 39 [He] has been discovered..showing up proses done for him by a wee & terrified Sixth.

1914 ‘I. Hay’ Lighter Side School Life i. 5 The Head..probably takes the Sixth for an hour or two a day.

1963 Sunday Times 8 Sept. 29/3 Cool Shakespeare thrives in the sixth and phrases like ‘Pox on't’..are in present usage.

1977 R. Rendell Judgement in Stone vi. 50 You're no longer the naughtiest girl in the sixth.

B. n.

1. A sixth part.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > six > [noun] > division into six > a sixth

sixth1557

1557 R. Record Whetstone of Witte sig. Bii^v A sixte more.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues , Sixain, a sixt, a sixt part.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Measure The Viertel, or Verge, consists of five Mingles, and one Sixth of a Mingle.

1828 J. E. Smith Eng. Flora (ed. 2) II. 345 Some flowers are deficient in a sixth of all their parts.

1842 Penny Cycl. XXIII. 418/2 One-sixth of its width.

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 588/2 In some Indian species the pores are one-sixth of an inch across.

2. Music. A tone on the sixth diatonic degree above or below another; the harmonic combination of two such tones; an interval comprising six diatonic degrees of the scale.Different varieties are distinguished by the epithets added, augmented, French, greater, Italian, minor, Neapolitan, sharp, small.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > interval > [noun] > sixth

sixth1597

hexachord1694

sices1737

sext1876

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > chord > [noun] > other chords

seventh1591

fourth1597

sixth1597

fifth1631

tierce1696

septime1725

repercussion1728

octave1749

substitution1784

triad1786

German sixth1812

French sixth1813

nintha1830

Neapolitan sixth1871

six-four1873

Italian sixth1875

tetrad1881

added sixth1888

leading seventh1889

ninth chord1889

under-chord1890

diminished seventh1926

1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 70 A third, a Fift, a Sixt, and an eight.

1609 J. Dowland tr. A. Ornithoparchus Micrologus 29 Those which sound thirds, sixts, or other imperfect Concords.

1706 A. Bedford Temple Musick ix. 178 In this Tune they might ascend gradually unto a Sixth.

1737 tr. J.-P. Rameau Treat. Music i. 5 The Third becomes a Sixth,..and..the Seventh becomes a Second.

1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music (at cited word) There are four kinds of sixths, two consonant and two dissonant.

1873 H. C. Banister Music 70 The first inversion of the Triad, consisting of a note with its 3rd and 6th, is termed the Chord of the Sixth.

3. Fencing. = sixte n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fencing > [noun] > positions

in-stop14..

out-stopa1500

warda1586

guard1601

preem1603

unicorn guard1617

quarte1639

tierce1687

tierce guard1687

tierce parade1687

inside1692

carte1707

hanging guard1707

quinte1707

seconde1707

saccoon1708

prime1710

segoon1721

octave1771

supination1805

septime1861

sixte1885

sixth1885

corps à corps1910

1885 E. Castle Schools & Masters of Fence Introd. 10 There can be as many guards as there are parries, although in modern days, carte, tierce, and sixth are almost exclusively used.

4. Anatomy. A nerve of the sixth cranial pair.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > nervous system > nerve > specific nerves > [noun] > pairs of cranial nerves > specific cranial nerves

optic sinew?c1425

recurrent nerve1578

optic1615

optic nerve1615

recurrent1615

par vagum1666

fourth nerve1681

accessory nerve1682

chorda tympani1807

abducens1809

hypoglossus1811

pneumogastric1826

pneumogastric nerve1827

hypoglossal nerve1828

facial1834

fifth nerve1836–9

vagus1840

vagal nerve1854

vagus nerve1856

Jacobson's nerve1860

oculomotor1868

trigeminus1875

hypoglossal1876

oculimotor1890

pathetic1890

sixth1899

trigeminal1899

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 117 Double ptosis has been frequently noted, and paralysis of both sixths sometimes.

Compounds

C1. With nouns, forming an attributive compound (also absol. of a former class of warships).

sixth-floor n.

ΚΠ

1820 T. Mitchell tr. Aristophanes Knights in tr. Aristophanes Comedies I. 232 A tub-and-cask tenant,—vulture-lodg'd—sixth-floor man.

sixth-form n.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > division of pupils > form or class

form1560

first forma1602

remove1718

shell1736

sixth-form1807

lower sixth (form)1818

pettya1827

grade1835

the twenty1857

baby class1860

standard1862

nursery class1863

primer1885

reception class1902

sixth form1938

reception1975

1807 S. Smith P. Plymley's Lett. vi The sixth-form effusions of Mr. Canning.

1879 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 3rd Ser. vi. 273 Landor is precisely a glorified..edition of the model sixth-form lad.

sixth-rate n.

ΚΠ

1694 London Gaz. No. 3014/4 A Sixth Rate Frigat of 26 Guns called the Drake.

1747 J. Lind Lett. Navy (1757) i. 22 Captains of sloops [have] the same [pay] with captains of a sixth rate.

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Sixth-rate, a British vessel of war bearing a captain.

C2.

sixth day n. the name given to Friday by members of the Society of Friends.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > specific days > [noun] > Friday

FridayeOE

SaturnightOE

sixth day1655

1655 G. Fox Jrnl. (1694) 152 On the Sixth day of that Week I had a meeting near Colchester.

1858 M. Tuckett Diary 26 Sept. in H. Fox Mariana's Diary (c1975) 8 Sixth day morning was bright and fine.

1976 Minutes Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends 30 (heading) Sixth day afternoon session, eighth month 27th.

sixth form n. see form n. 6b.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > division of pupils > form or class

form1560

first forma1602

remove1718

shell1736

sixth-form1807

lower sixth (form)1818

pettya1827

grade1835

the twenty1857

baby class1860

standard1862

nursery class1863

primer1885

reception class1902

sixth form1938

reception1975

1938 C. L. Morgan Flashing Stream 31 He who wrote the Sonnets, or Hamlet's bidding to Ophelia..had no moderation, no smell of the sixth form, no sense of humour.

1967 Listener 18 May 645/1 The eighteen-year-old emerging from our sixth forms has a level of knowledge as good as a second year student in a North American university.

sixth-form college n. a college for pupils over the age of sixteen, chiefly providing A-level courses.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > place of education > college or university > [noun] > college > other colleges

agricultural college1778

state college1806

ladies' college1835

fem sem1842

junior college1899

ag1905

correspondence college1911

Aggie1920

seven sisters1927

juku1962

sixth-form college1965

1965 H. L. Elvin Educ. & Contemp. Soc. ii. vii. 134 There is little doubt that the sixth form college would be welcomed by most of the young people who would go to it.

1976 Times 18 Aug. 3/2 Tameside council has decided not to introduce two proposed sixth form colleges.

sixth-former n. see -former comb. form.

sixth nerve n. a nerve of the sixth cranial pair; cf. sense B. 4.

ΚΠ

1823 C. Bell Expos. Nerves Human Body (1824) 360 The sixth nerve is called abducens, and motor externus.

1875 Encycl. Brit. I. 881/1 The Abducent or sixth nerve springs out of the groove between the lower border of the pons and the anterior pyramid of the medulla oblongata.

a1883 C. H. Fagge Princ. & Pract. Med. (1886) I. 540 Afterwards she had paralysis of each sixth nerve.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	sixth
释义	sixthadj.n. Brit. /sɪk(s)θ/, U.S. /sɪksθ/ Forms: α. (a) Old English seista (Northumbrian), Old English sesta (Anglian), Old English sexta, Old English–Middle English seste, late Old English syoxte, early Middle English sæxte (south-west midlands), early Middle English seoxta (in copy of Old English charter), Middle English seixt, Middle English sexst, Middle English sextt, Middle English–1600s sext, Middle English–1600s sexte; Scottish pre-1700 sexit, pre-1700 sexte, pre-1700 1800s sext; (b) Scottish pre-1700 saxte, pre-1700 1800s– saxt. β. Old English siexta, Old English sihsta (rare), Old English sixfe (transmission error), Old English sixta, Old English syxsta (rare), Old English syxta, early Middle English siste, Middle English sixete, Middle English sixste, Middle English zixt (south-eastern), Middle English zixte (south-eastern), Middle English zyxst (south-western), Middle English zyxte (south-eastern), Middle English–1500s syxte, Middle English–1600s sixst, Middle English–1600s sixte, Middle English–1600s syxt, Middle English–1700s sixt; Scottish pre-1700 1900s– sixt. γ. Middle English sexth, Middle English sexthe, Middle English sexþe, Middle English sexyth, Middle English sixsthe, Middle English sixþe, Middle English syxþe, Middle English–1500s syxth, Middle English–1500s syxthe, Middle English–1600s sixthe, Middle English– sixth, 1500s–1600s sixeth, 1500s–1600s sixtth; Scottish pre-1700 sexth, pre-1700 1700s– sixth, 1900s– saxth. Also represented by the abbreviations 6th, 6^th, vith, vi^th, VIth, VI^th, and variants. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian sexta (West Frisian seisde , East Frisian (Wangeroog) sext , North Frisian (Sylt) sokst ), Middle Dutch seste , sesde (Dutch zesde ), Old Saxon sehsto (Middle Low German seste , soste ), Old High German sehsto (Middle High German sehste , German sechste ), Norwegian regional sekste , Old Danish (rare) sæxte (Danish regional (South Jutland) sæjst ), Gothic saihsta , and (without -s- ) Old High German sehto (Middle High German sehte ), Old Icelandic sétti (Icelandic sjötti ), Norwegian sjette , Old Swedish sätte , siätte (Swedish sjätte ), Old Danish sætæ , siætæ (Danish sjette ) < the Germanic base of six adj. + the Germanic base of -th suffix² (forms without -s- perhaps reflect the original Proto-Germanic form of the ordinal, whereas forms with -s- a later form with remodelling after the cardinal); compare similarly Sanskrit ṣaṣṭhá-, Avestan xštuua-, ancient Greek ἕκτος, (Cretan) ϝέκτος, classical Latin sextus, Early Irish sessed, Welsh chweched, Old Church Slavonic šestŭ, Old Prussian uschts, wuschts, Lithuanian šeštas.For discussion of forms see six adj. and n. The α. and β. forms in their suffixation show continuation of original Indo-European -t- , unshifted because it was protected by the preceding consonant (compare early forms of fifth adj., eleventh adj., twelfth adj.); the γ. forms show alteration of final -t to -th* after fourth adj., seventh adj., eighth adj., ninth adj., tenth adj., etc. See discussion at -th suffix². The ordinal numeral corresponding to the cardinal six adj. and n. A. adj. 1. a. With modified noun expressed or implied (frequently occurring earlier in the context). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > six > [adjective] > sixth sixthc893 sixc1385 half-dozenth1840 α. a900 Old Eng. Martyrol. 6 Jan. 14 On þone sextan dæg þæs monðes. c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Mark xv. 33 Miððy awarð tid ðio seista. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 14 Þe seste [dale is] of penitence. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 6941 Þæ sæxte [c1300 Otho sixte][god] hæhte Appollin. c1320 Deb. Body & Soul in Map's Poems (Camden) 348 The seste day ayen the dom shule foure aungles stonde. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 121 After Leo Virgo the nexte Of Signes cleped is the sexte. a1400 K. Alis. (Laud) 2736 Þe sexte he slouȝ of Nauere he was. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 2047 Here begynnes the Sext Boke. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) v. 27 Virgil..in the sext beuk of his eneados. c1570 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xliv. 302 That saxt chapter of Iohne. 1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem 43 The saxt day of November. β. c893 tr. Orosius Hist. i. vii. 38 Þæt syxte [wonder] wæs þæt eall þæt folc wæs on blædran.c900 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Parker MS.) an. 827 Siexta [cyning] wæs Oswald se æfter him ricsode.c1000 Sax. Leechdoms II. 298 Syxte mægen is þæt drycræft þam men ne dereþ.c1175 Lamb. Hom. 43 Þe forme [wave] wes snaw,..þe siste smorðer.a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 6 Þe sixte dole is of penitence.1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 5018 He deide after martin masse riȝt þe sixte day.1340 Ayenbite (1866) 17 Þe uerste boȝ of prede is ontreuþe,..þe zixte, ypocrisie.a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 59 Þe sixte tyme þe consuls of Rome..were sent aȝenst Hanibal.?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxxi The sixt [property] to haue great nose thyrlles.1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 336 The sixt Chapter declareth, that Manna was a figure.1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. ⁋6 Yea, there was a fift and a sixt edition.1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 449 The Sixt [day], and of Creation last arose. View more context for this quotationγ. ?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) I. lf. 127^v At the fyfthe and syxthe dayes folowyng, hercules toke his bowe and his arowes And wente in to the place that was ordeyned.1611 Bible (King James) Gen. i. 31 And the euening and the morning were the sixth day. View more context for this quotation1654 J. Playford Breefe Introd. Skill Musick 29 The first [string] is called the Treble,..the sixth, the Basse.1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. vi. 111 His Majesty, in a sixth Audience..proposed many Doubts.a1771 T. Gray tr. Dante in Wks. (1884) I. 160 E'er the sixth Morn Had dawn'd.1837 P. Keith Bot. Lexicon 404 Among anatomists we sometimes hear of a sixth sense.1884 Jrnl. Education 1 Sept. 351/1 A classical Sixth Form. b. Following on the names of kings, popes, etc.Very commonly, and now usually, expressed by the symbol VI, e.g. James VI. ΚΠ 1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. VII. 151 Gregorie þe sixte,.. after Benet. 1423 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Var. Coll. (1907) IV. 83 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 3218) LXIV. 1 The zere of Kyng' Harry the zyxst the furste. c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 2 Charles the sext of that name. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) xi. 68 Ther eftir henry the saxt lossit his liyf. 1588 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha (new ed.) ii. iv. 160 The late K. Henry the sixt. 1641 ‘Smectymnuus’ Vindic. Answer Hvmble Remonstr. xiv. 174 All the Bishops in King Edwards the sixt time. 1674 D. Brevint Saul & Samuel 227 Nothing to Pope Sixtus the 4th, nor to Alexander the sixt. 1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. xlviii. 57 To nominate for her successor Michael the sixth. 1857 Willis's Current Notes Jan. 4/2 King James the Sixth. 2. elliptical. With omission of day, house, form, former, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > six > [noun] > that which is sixth sixth1573 society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [adjective] > form or class third form1687 upper1856 sixth1857 mainstream1974 1573 Catholic Tractates (S.T.S.) 14 Writtin at Paris the sext of December. 1592 tr. F. Du Jon Apocalypsis xi. 7 In the Sixt of the Decretals. 1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments To Rdr. The sixt of May. 1647 W. Lilly Christian Astrol. xliv. 258 Any malevolent in the sixt,..shews great danger. 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days Pref. By getting not only the Sixth to put it down but the lower fellows to scorn it. c1898 W. Lewis Lett. (1963) 6 First a fellow got a ‘sixth licking’ (stripes from every sixth in the house). 1906 R. Brooke Let. 3 Feb. (1968) 39 [He] has been discovered..showing up proses done for him by a wee & terrified Sixth. 1914 ‘I. Hay’ Lighter Side School Life i. 5 The Head..probably takes the Sixth for an hour or two a day. 1963 Sunday Times 8 Sept. 29/3 Cool Shakespeare thrives in the sixth and phrases like ‘Pox on't’..are in present usage. 1977 R. Rendell Judgement in Stone vi. 50 You're no longer the naughtiest girl in the sixth. B. n. 1. A sixth part. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > six > [noun] > division into six > a sixth sixth1557 1557 R. Record Whetstone of Witte sig. Bii^v A sixte more. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues , Sixain, a sixt, a sixt part. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Measure The Viertel, or Verge, consists of five Mingles, and one Sixth of a Mingle. 1828 J. E. Smith Eng. Flora (ed. 2) II. 345 Some flowers are deficient in a sixth of all their parts. 1842 Penny Cycl. XXIII. 418/2 One-sixth of its width. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 588/2 In some Indian species the pores are one-sixth of an inch across. 2. Music. A tone on the sixth diatonic degree above or below another; the harmonic combination of two such tones; an interval comprising six diatonic degrees of the scale.Different varieties are distinguished by the epithets added, augmented, French, greater, Italian, minor, Neapolitan, sharp, small. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > interval > [noun] > sixth sixth1597 hexachord1694 sices1737 sext1876 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > chord > [noun] > other chords seventh1591 fourth1597 sixth1597 fifth1631 tierce1696 septime1725 repercussion1728 octave1749 substitution1784 triad1786 German sixth1812 French sixth1813 nintha1830 Neapolitan sixth1871 six-four1873 Italian sixth1875 tetrad1881 added sixth1888 leading seventh1889 ninth chord1889 under-chord1890 diminished seventh1926 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 70 A third, a Fift, a Sixt, and an eight. 1609 J. Dowland tr. A. Ornithoparchus Micrologus 29 Those which sound thirds, sixts, or other imperfect Concords. 1706 A. Bedford Temple Musick ix. 178 In this Tune they might ascend gradually unto a Sixth. 1737 tr. J.-P. Rameau Treat. Music i. 5 The Third becomes a Sixth,..and..the Seventh becomes a Second. 1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music (at cited word) There are four kinds of sixths, two consonant and two dissonant. 1873 H. C. Banister Music 70 The first inversion of the Triad, consisting of a note with its 3rd and 6th, is termed the Chord of the Sixth. 3. Fencing. = sixte n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fencing > [noun] > positions in-stop14.. out-stopa1500 warda1586 guard1601 preem1603 unicorn guard1617 quarte1639 tierce1687 tierce guard1687 tierce parade1687 inside1692 carte1707 hanging guard1707 quinte1707 seconde1707 saccoon1708 prime1710 segoon1721 octave1771 supination1805 septime1861 sixte1885 sixth1885 corps à corps1910 1885 E. Castle Schools & Masters of Fence Introd. 10 There can be as many guards as there are parries, although in modern days, carte, tierce, and sixth are almost exclusively used. 4. Anatomy. A nerve of the sixth cranial pair. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > nervous system > nerve > specific nerves > [noun] > pairs of cranial nerves > specific cranial nerves optic sinew?c1425 recurrent nerve1578 optic1615 optic nerve1615 recurrent1615 par vagum1666 fourth nerve1681 accessory nerve1682 chorda tympani1807 abducens1809 hypoglossus1811 pneumogastric1826 pneumogastric nerve1827 hypoglossal nerve1828 facial1834 fifth nerve1836–9 vagus1840 vagal nerve1854 vagus nerve1856 Jacobson's nerve1860 oculomotor1868 trigeminus1875 hypoglossal1876 oculimotor1890 pathetic1890 sixth1899 trigeminal1899 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 117 Double ptosis has been frequently noted, and paralysis of both sixths sometimes. Compounds C1. With nouns, forming an attributive compound (also absol. of a former class of warships). sixth-floor n. ΚΠ 1820 T. Mitchell tr. Aristophanes Knights in tr. Aristophanes Comedies I. 232 A tub-and-cask tenant,—vulture-lodg'd—sixth-floor man. sixth-form n. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > division of pupils > form or class form1560 first forma1602 remove1718 shell1736 sixth-form1807 lower sixth (form)1818 pettya1827 grade1835 the twenty1857 baby class1860 standard1862 nursery class1863 primer1885 reception class1902 sixth form1938 reception1975 1807 S. Smith P. Plymley's Lett. vi The sixth-form effusions of Mr. Canning. 1879 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 3rd Ser. vi. 273 Landor is precisely a glorified..edition of the model sixth-form lad. sixth-rate n. ΚΠ 1694 London Gaz. No. 3014/4 A Sixth Rate Frigat of 26 Guns called the Drake. 1747 J. Lind Lett. Navy (1757) i. 22 Captains of sloops [have] the same [pay] with captains of a sixth rate. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Sixth-rate, a British vessel of war bearing a captain. C2. sixth day n. the name given to Friday by members of the Society of Friends. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > specific days > [noun] > Friday FridayeOE SaturnightOE sixth day1655 1655 G. Fox Jrnl. (1694) 152 On the Sixth day of that Week I had a meeting near Colchester. 1858 M. Tuckett Diary 26 Sept. in H. Fox Mariana's Diary (c1975) 8 Sixth day morning was bright and fine. 1976 Minutes Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends 30 (heading) Sixth day afternoon session, eighth month 27th. sixth form n. see form n. 6b. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > division of pupils > form or class form1560 first forma1602 remove1718 shell1736 sixth-form1807 lower sixth (form)1818 pettya1827 grade1835 the twenty1857 baby class1860 standard1862 nursery class1863 primer1885 reception class1902 sixth form1938 reception1975 1938 C. L. Morgan Flashing Stream 31 He who wrote the Sonnets, or Hamlet's bidding to Ophelia..had no moderation, no smell of the sixth form, no sense of humour. 1967 Listener 18 May 645/1 The eighteen-year-old emerging from our sixth forms has a level of knowledge as good as a second year student in a North American university. sixth-form college n. a college for pupils over the age of sixteen, chiefly providing A-level courses. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > college or university > [noun] > college > other colleges agricultural college1778 state college1806 ladies' college1835 fem sem1842 junior college1899 ag1905 correspondence college1911 Aggie1920 seven sisters1927 juku1962 sixth-form college1965 1965 H. L. Elvin Educ. & Contemp. Soc. ii. vii. 134 There is little doubt that the sixth form college would be welcomed by most of the young people who would go to it. 1976 Times 18 Aug. 3/2 Tameside council has decided not to introduce two proposed sixth form colleges. sixth-former n. see -former comb. form. sixth nerve n. a nerve of the sixth cranial pair; cf. sense B. 4. ΚΠ 1823 C. Bell Expos. Nerves Human Body (1824) 360 The sixth nerve is called abducens, and motor externus. 1875 Encycl. Brit. I. 881/1 The Abducent or sixth nerve springs out of the groove between the lower border of the pons and the anterior pyramid of the medulla oblongata. a1883 C. H. Fagge Princ. & Pract. Med. (1886) I. 540 Afterwards she had paralysis of each sixth nerve. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.c893
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