SEXAGENARY

a. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Pertaining to, or designating, the number sixty; poceeding by sixties; sixty years old. Sexagenary arithmetic. See under Sexagesimal. -- Sexagenary, or Sexagesimal, scale (Math.), a scale of numbers in which the modulus is sixty. It is used in treating the divisions of the circle.

2.
n.

Something composed of sixty parts or divisions.

3.
n.

A sexagenarian. Sir W. Scott.