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sexennial

[ sek-sen-ee-uhl ]

adjective

  1. of or for six years.
  2. occurring every six years.


sexennial

/ ²õÉ›°ìˈ²õÉ›²Ôɪə±ô /

adjective

  1. occurring once every six years or over a period of six years
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a sixth anniversary
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ²õ±ð³æˈ±ð²Ô²Ô¾±²¹±ô±ô²â, adverb
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ²õ±ð³æ·±ð²Ôn¾±Â·²¹±ô·±ô²â adverb
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of sexennial1

1640–50; < Latin sexenni ( s ) six years old ( sex six + -enn-, combining form of annus year + -is adj. suffix) + -al 1
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of sexennial1

C17: from Latin sexennis of six years, from sex six + annus a year
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Example Sentences

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Sexennial, seks-en′yal, adj. lasting six years: happening once in six years—also Sextenn′ial.—adv.

From

By the testimony of those renowned surgeons, Sir Henry Thompson and Mr. Erichsen, by the award to Doctor Bigelow of a sexennial prize founded by the Marquis d' Argenteuil, and by general consent, this innovation is established as one of the great modern improvements in surgery.

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The occasion: the Tromenie, Brittany's sexennial pilgrimage, whose history, like Locronan's, dates back to the 5th or 6th century.

The parliaments were not wholly free from faction, I admit; but this evil was exterior and accidental, and not so much the vice of their constitution itself as it must be in your new contrivance of sexennial elective judicatories.

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Associated words: sexennial, sexennially. size, n. magnitude, volume, dimensions, amplitude, bulk, extent, bigness. skedaddle, v.

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