Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
sextry . - noun A sextarius.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Rom. Antiq.) An ancient Roman liquid and dry measure, about equal to an English pint.
- noun obsolete A sacristy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An ancient
Roman liquid and dry measure, about equal to an Englishpint . - noun An Old English measure of liquid, usually
wine orcider , perhaps containing 6gallons . - noun obsolete A
sacristy .
Etymologies
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Examples
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D'you know you have made us lose a sextary of wheat, which I should have bought with the triobolus of the
The Ecclesiazusae 2000
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It is doubtful whether this word be derived from a sextary (a certain measure), or from vessels planed or engraven.
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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But if he be poor, and his hand cannot find the things aforesaid: he shall take a lamb for an offering for trespass, that the priest may pray for him, and a tenth part of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice, and a sextary of oil:
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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He shall take a lamb, and offer it for a trespass offering with the sextary of oil.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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He shall take a lamb, and offer it for a trespass offering with the sextary of oil.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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Let the balance be just and the weights equal, the bushel just, and the sextary equal.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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On the eighth day, he shall take two lambs without blemish, and an ewe of a year old without blemish, and three tenths of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice, and a sextary of oil apart.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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And he shall pour of the sextary of oil into his own left hand,
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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D'you know you have made us lose a _sextary_ of wheat, which I should have bought with the _triobolus_ of the Assembly?
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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And the priest receiving the lamb for trespass, and the sextary of oil, shall elevate them together.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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