sixt

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪkst/
• Rhymes: -ɪkst
• Homophone: sixte

Adjective

sixt

1. Obsolete spelling of sixth.
   • 1809 [1563], Richard Grafton, Grafton's Chronicle, Or History of England‎^[1], page 534:

     Mary eldest daughter of king Henry the eight by the Lady Katherin of Spain, his first wife, and sister vnto king Edward the sixt by the father side, began her reigne the sixt day of Iuly, which day the king her brother died, and she was proclaymed at London […]

   • 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], page 95, column 2:

     And of it left his Sonne Imperial Lord / Henry the Sixt in Infant Bands crown'd King / Of France and England, did this King ſucceed: / Whoſe State ſo many had the managing, / That they loſt France, and made his England bleed:

   • 1650, Robert Persons, A Christian Directory […] ‎^[2]:

     The ſixt thing that uſeth to ſtay and hinder men from mature Reſolution, Which is the deceitfull hope and perſwaſion to do it better, or with more eaſe afterward.

Noun

sixt

1. Obsolete spelling of sixth.
   • 1609, T. W., An Exposition of the two first verses of the sixt chapter to the Hebrewes, in forme of a dialogue.‎^[3], page 79:

     They therefore are deceiued which thinke the grace of God though it cannot finally be loſt finally and for euer, yet that it may be loſt wholy for a time, whereas contrariwiſe the Apoſtle teacheth in the sixt to the Romanes, that the elect hauing once the life of grace from the ſpirit of Chriſt can no more returne to the death of ſinne, then Chriſt being raiſed from the dead can returne from the graue againe, verſe 9. 10. 11. reade and conſider the place.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost‎^[4], Samuel Simmons, lines 447–449:

     With Fiſh repleniſht, and the Aire with Fowle, / Ev’ning and Morn ſolemniz’d the Fift day, / The Sixt, and of Creation laſt aroſe […]

Anagrams

• Stix, stix

Middle English

Adjective

sixt

1. Alternative form of sixte

Noun

sixt

1. Alternative form of sixte

Scots

Adjective

sixt

1. Alternative form of saxt

References

• “sixt” under “six, num. adj.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 23 May 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.