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 Sexages’ima Sunday.Sex’ton. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Sex’tile (2 syl.).
 
The aspect of two planets when distant from each other sixty degrees or two signs. This position is marked thus *. As there are twelve signs, two signs are a sixth.   1
       
“In sextile, square, and trine, and opposite
Of noxious efficacy.”
       
Milton: Paradise Lost, x. 659.
 


 Sexages’ima Sunday.Sex’ton. 

 
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