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sext

  [sekst]
–noun Ecclesiastical.
the fourth of the seven canonical hours, or the service for it, originally fixed for the sixth hour of the day taken as noon.
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Origin:
1375–1425; late ME sexte, syxt < ML sexta (hōra) sixth (hour)
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sext also Sext   (sěkst)   
n.   Ecclesiastical

  1. The fourth of the seven canonical hours.

  2. The time of day set aside for this service, usually the sixth hour, or noon.


[Middle English sexte, from Late Latin sexta, from Latin sexta (hōra), sixth (hour), feminine of sextus, sixth; see s(w)eks in Indo-European roots.]
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