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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In medieval music for more than four voice-parts, the second additional voice or part.
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Most months that exist now have meaning and carry names lyrical and numerical -- save for July and August, the former named for Julius Caesar, the month of his birth and 44 years later, his death, the latter for Augustus, a month originally called Sextilis (from sextus for six).
Richard Wurman: The Month of Remember: From '33' By Richard Saul Wurman Richard Wurman 2010
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Most months that exist now have meaning and carry names lyrical and numerical -- save for July and August, the former named for Julius Caesar, the month of his birth and 44 years later, his death, the latter for Augustus, a month originally called Sextilis (from sextus for six).
Richard Wurman: The Month of Remember: From '33' By Richard Saul Wurman Richard Wurman 2010
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Exinde amissis succedentium nominibus, sextus decimus dicebatur vel dicitur Melec Mandibron: sub isto steti ego per aliquod tempus stipendiarius in guerris suis contra Bedones, qui ei tunc temporis rebellabant.
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Exinde amissis succedentium nominibus, sextus decimus dicebatur vel dicitur Melec Mandibron: sub isto steti ego per aliquod tempus stipendiarius in guerris suis contra Bedones, qui ei tunc temporis rebellabant.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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(Lyon, 1604); Jean Lemoine, Glossae to Extravagantes com - munes, at end of the Lyon (1559), ed. of the Liber sextus;
Dictionary of the History of Ideas GAINES POST 1968
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[776] "Vitæ ... viginti trium abbatum Sancti Albani," in "Matthæi Paris monachi Albanensis [Opera]," London, 1639-40, 2 vols. fol., vol.ii. p. 56 "Gaufridus decimus sextus [abbas]."
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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Hence Benedict XIV could rightly say that the collection of his Bulls formed part of the corpus juris (Jam fere sextus, 1746).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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Most months that exist now have meaning and carry names lyrical and numerical -- save for July and August, the former named for Julius Caesar, the month of his birth and 44 years later, his death, the latter for Augustus, a month originally called Sextilis (from sextus for six).
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Richard Wurman 2010
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Exinde amissis succedentium nominibus, sextus decimus dicebatur vel dicitur Melec Mandibron: sub isto steti ego per aliquod tempus stipendiarius in guerris suis contra Bedones, qui ei tunc temporis rebellabant.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Edwardus sextus Dei gratia Angliæ, Franciæ, et Hiberniæ rex, omnibus
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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