Citations:sextate

English citations of sextate

Verb

• 1791, Emanuel Swedenborg, The Apocalypſe Revealed: Wherein are Diſcloſed the Arcana There Foretold, which Have Hitherto Remained Concealed (C. Wheeler), volume 2, page 101

  Becauſe ſix ſignified Full, the Word to ſextate (to divide into ſix, of to give a ſixth Part) originated thence, by which in a ſpiritual Senſe is ſignified that which is complete and entire, as That they ſhould Sextate an Ephah out of an Homer of Barley, (i. e. take a Sixth of an Ephah) Ezek. xlv. 13. and it is ſaid of Gog, I will turn thee back, and will Sextate thee (leave but a ſixth Part of thee) Ezek. xxxix. 2. by which is ſignified, that with him all Truth of Good in the Word ſhould be totally deſtroyed; who are meant by Gog, may be ſeen N. 850.

• 1883, Edward Madeley, Benjamin Fiske Barrett, Thomas Goyder, and Robert Hindmarsh, The Science of Correspondences Elucidated: The Key to the Heavenly and True Meaning of the Sacred Scriptures (6th ed., The Swedenborg Pub. Association), page 450

  By sextating, or leaving but a sixth part of Gog, is signified the total destruction of every truth derived from good in such a church: the sixth part denotes the same as the number six itself, being predicated of truths, and in the […]

Adjective

• 1907, Albert Mann and Percy Leroy Ricker, Report on the Diatoms of the Albatross Voyages in the Pacific Ocean, 1888–1904 (Government Printing Office), page 293

  De Toni’s placing the quadrate form in Amphitetras and the sextate in Nothoceratium is of course indefensible.

• 1967, Journal of the Indian Chemical Society, volume 44, issue 2, page 990

  The room temperature magnetic moments of these complexes were determined by the Gouy method and the values are in the range 5.7—5.9 B.M. (Table), indicative of the presence of five unpaired electrons and the sextate ground state level in these complexes.

Noun

• 1981, Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy: Physical sciences, part 1, page 199

  Mössbauer spectrum of pure γ− Fe₂O₃ (figure-1) shows a broadened sextate due to the presence of two subspectra.

• 1987, Minoru Takahashi et al. [eds.], Proceedings of the International Symposium on Physics of Magnetic Materials, Sendai, Japan, April 8–11, 1987 (World Scientific; →ISBN, 9789971503581), page 392

  The spectrum could be best fitted with one sextate having broad lines which indicate the presence of more than one crystallographically nonequivalent iron sites.