Definition for SEX'A-GEN-A-RY

SEX'A-GEN-A-RY, a. [Fr. sexagénaire; L. sexagenarius, from sex, six, and a word signifying ten, seen in viginti; bisgenti.]

Designating the number sixty; as, a noun, a person sixty years of age; also, something composed of sixty.

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