Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The union of six men in the same office; the office or dignity held by six men jointly; also, six persons holding an office jointly.
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Examples
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More, and himself were perpetually together: a sextumvirate to which all the ages of the world cannot add a seventh.
Gulliver's Travels 1896
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I had the honour to have much conversation with Brutus; and was told, "that his ancestor Junius, Socrates, Epaminondas, Cato the younger, Sir Thomas More, and himself were perpetually together:" a sextumvirate, to which all the ages of the world cannot add a seventh.
Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1706
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I had the honour to have much conversation with Brutus; and was told, "that his ancestor Junius, Socrates, Epaminondas, Cato the younger, Sir Thomas More, and himself were perpetually together:" a sextumvirate, to which all the ages of the world cannot add a seventh.
Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1706
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I had the honour to have much conversation with Brutus; and was told, "that his ancestor Junius, Socrates, Epaminondas, Cato the younger, Sir Thomas More, and himself were perpetually together:" a sextumvirate, to which all the ages of the world cannot add a seventh.
Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1706
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Socrates, Epaminondas, Cato the younger, Sir Thomas More, and himself were perpetually together:” a sextumvirate, to which all the ages of the world cannot add a seventh.
Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World 1726
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