hexahemeron

English

Etymology

See hexameron.

Noun

hexahemeron (plural hexahemera)

1. A term of six days, especially the hexameron, or six days of the biblical creation.
   • 1867, Anson Doner Eby, Showers of blessing:

     Ere another hexahemeron had wasted, his companion, as he foresaw, would be sheltered beneath his mother’s roof.

   • 1889, Heinrich Schmid, Charles Augustus Hay, Henry Eyster Jacobs, The doctrinal theology of the Evangelical Lutheran church:

     The first man was Adam. Quen. (I, 543); "Adam, framed by God on the sixth day of the first hexahemeron, is the first of all men, and the parent of the entire human race, throughout the whole globe

   • 1892, John Thein, Christian Anthropology, pages 252–253:

     The Chaldeans preserved the tradition of the hexahemeron in the week of creation, and saw in each day the twelve hours or great sars of 3600.

   • 1902, Peter Coffey, “The Hexahemeron and Science (II)”, in The Irish Ecclesiastical Record‎^[1], volume 12, number 2, page 261:

     And that part of the Hexahemeron which is now admitted not to have an historically true sense, and which is still not directly religious, but only part of the setting for the religious truths, how is it to be accounted for?

   • 1985, William Katz, Library Literature 15: The Best of 1984, page 253:

     Analyses indicate that by the end of the first day, 60 to 70 percent of the total U.S. risk population could be evaculated, by the end of the second day, 80 to 90 percent; and by the end of the thrid day over 95 percent. Thus do FEMA officials prophesy the successful evacuation of America in one-half of the hexahemeron, the six days required for the creation of heaven and earth, of the light and starry firmament, of fish and fowl and beasts and the lilies of the valley, of Adam and Maiden.

   • 2020, Paul H Frampton, Jihn E Kim, History Of Particle Theory: Between Darwin And Shakespeare, page 28:

     The hexahermeron must have been an issue in the beginning of the 5th century.