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Sexagenary   Listen
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Sexagenary  adj.  Pertaining to, or designating, the number sixty; poceeding by sixties; sixty years old.
Sexagenary arithmetic. See under Sexagesimal.
Sexagenary scale, or Sexagesimal scale (Math.), a scale of numbers in which the modulus is sixty. It is used in treating the divisions of the circle.






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"Sexagenary" Quotes from Famous Books



... honour, sir,' replied the Baron, 'the lad can sometimes be as dowff as a sexagenary like myself. If your Royal Highness had seen him dreaming and dozing about the banks of Tully-Veolan like an hypochondriac person, or, as Burton's ANATOMIA hath it, a phrenesiac or lethargic patient, you would wonder where he hath sae suddenly acquired all this fine sprack ...
— Waverley • Sir Walter Scott



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