SEXTILE

a. n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Measured by sixty degrees; fixed or indicated by a distance of sixty degrees. Glanvill.

2.
n.

The aspect or position of two planets when distant from each other sixty degrees, or two signs. This position is marked thus: Hutton.


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