sexennial
English edit
Etymology edit
From New Latin sexennialis (16th century), equivalent to sexennium + -al.
Adjective edit
sexennial (not comparable)
- Pertaining to a period of six years; taking place once every six years. [from 17th c.]
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France:
- [T]his evil was exterior and accidental, and not so much the vice of their constitution itself, as it must be in your new contrivance of sexennial elective judicatories.
Noun edit
sexennial (plural sexennials)
- A sexennial event.
References edit
- “sexennial”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “sexennial”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “sexennial”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.