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Wrong exposition.

To expound erroneously.

Wrong expression.

Having no distinction of sex; sexless; neuter.

An aspect of the planets when they are distant from each other the twelfth part of a circle, or thirty degrees. Hutton.

Having the ratio of one to six; as, a subsextuple proportion. Bp. Wilkins.

Change of sex. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Having one sex only, as plants which have the male and female flowers on separate individuals, or animals in which the sexes are in separate individuals; dioecious; -- distinguished from bisexual, or hermaphrodite. See Dioecious.

To deprive of sex, or of qualities becoming to one's sex; esp., to make unfeminine in character, manners, duties, or the like; as, to unsex a woman.

Not sexual; not proper or peculiar to one of the sexes. De Quincey.

A monastery or society of persons of either sex, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy; also, the monastic building or buildings.

Admission to sexual intercourse. During coverture, access of the husband shall be presumed, unless the contrary be shown. Blackstone.

Applied to sexual zooids of hydroids, that have a saclike form and do not become free; -- opposed to phanerocodonic.

the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.

A man who commits adultery; a married man who has sexual intercourse with a woman not his wife.

The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman with another than her husband.

nship or attraction held to exist sometimes between persons, esp. persons of the opposite sex; also, the man or woman who exerts such psychical or spiritual attraction.

Reproduction without the union of parents of distinct sexes: asexual reproduction.

Reproducing or produced without sexual union. -- Ag`a*mo*ge*net"ic*al*ly, adv. All known agamogenetic processes end in a complete return to the primitive stock. Huxley.

Having no visible sexual organs; asexual. In Bot., cryptogamous.