Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word SEXAGENARY

Definitions of SEXAGENARY

1. Of or related to the number sixty, particularly:
2. (math, astronomy, now, rare) Synonym of sexagesimal: base-60 numeration.
3. (now, rare) Synonym of sexagenarian: a sixty-year-old.

Examples of Using SEXAGENARY in a Sentence

• The traditional calendar used the sexagenary cycle-based ganzhi system's mathematically repeating cycles of Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches.
• Its sexagenary cycle was often used together with era names, as in the 1729 Ise calendar shown above, which is for "the 14th year of Kyōhō, tsuchi-no-to no tori", i.
• A new era name was also often designated on the first, fifth and 58th years of the sexagenary cycle, because they were inauspicious years in Onmyōdō.
• The era's name was changed to Kanpō in February 1741 due to the belief in Chinese astrology that the 58th year of the sexagenary cycle brings changes.
• This event was important because, in each sexagenary cycle, the first and the fifty-eighth years were considered to be auspicious according to Chinese astrological principles.
• 1 AD, 2 AD and 3 AD correspond respectively to the 58th, 59th and 60th years of the sexagenary cycle.
• By the Song dynasty, this systemand the extra importance of the sixtieth birthday produced by its combination with the sexagenary cyclehad spread throughout the Sinosphere.
• In the metonymy Eulsa Treaty, the word Eulsa or Ulsa derives from the Sexagenary Cycle's 42nd year in the Korean calendar, in which the treaty was signed.
• The traditional lunisolar calendars in the Sinosphere (Chinese calendar, Japanese calendar, Korean calendar) observe sexagenary cycles: cycles of sixty years.
• Setsubun or Risshun is the beginning of the sexagenary cycle; therefore, by drinking sencha one can enjoy a year of good health.
• The Three Corpses are supposed to keep records of their host's misdeeds, ascend to tian "heaven" bimonthly on the night of Chinese sexagenary gengshen 庚申 "57th of the 60-day cycle" while the host is sleeping, and file reports to the Siming 司命 "Director of Destinies" who deducts a certain number of days from the person's life for each misdeed.
• The German sinologist Alfred Forke's English translation of the Lunheng consistently renders fangzhu as "moon-mirror" and yangsui as "burning-glass", because two chapters describe "liquefying five stones" (wǔshí 五石) on a bingwu day (43rd in the 60-day sexagenary cycle) in the fifth lunar month.

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