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SEXT
sext
(noun) the fourth of the seven canonical hours; about noon
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
sext (plural sexts)
(historical) Noon, reckoned as the sixth hour of daylight.
Synonyms: midday, noontide, Thesaurus:midday
(Roman Catholicism) The service appointed for this hour.
(music) A sixth: an interval of six diatonic degrees.
(music, obsolete) An organ stop of two ranks of pipes an interval of a sixth apart.
Hypernyms
• (both): hour, canonical hour
• (service): liturgy of the hours, little hours
Etymology 2
Noun
sext (plural sexts)
An electronic message involving sexual language or images.
Verb
sext (third-person singular simple present sexts, present participle sexting, simple past and past participle sexted)
(intransitive & transitive) To send a sext.
Synonyms
• sex-text
Source: Wiktionary
Sext, n. Etym: [L. sexta, fem. of sextus sixtt, fr. sex six: cf. F. sexte.] (R.C.Ch.) (a) The office for the sixth canonical hour, being a part of the Breviary. (b) The sixth book of the decretals, added by Pope Boniface VIII.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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