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Definition of Sexennial
1. a. Lasting six years, or happening once in six years.
Definition of Sexennial
1. Adjective. Lasting six years. ¹
2. Adjective. Happening once in six years. ¹
3. Noun. A sexennial event. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sexennial
1. [n -S]
Literary usage of Sexennial
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bible and Slavery by Charles Elliot (1859)
"No rigor was exercised over a hired servant; whereas, over the sexennial servant
... The sexennial servants. The Mosaic code on this class of servants is as ..."
2. A Handbook of the Law of Scotland by James Lorimer (1885)
"sexennial Prescription.—By 12 Geo. in. c. 72, sec. 37, rendered perpetual by 23
Geo. in. c. 18, sec. 55, it is enacted "that no bill of exchange, ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Bills of Exchange, Promissory-notes, Bank-notes by Robert Thomson (1836)
"Limits of the sexennial Prescription, 1. Exception of minority. It has been
already mentioned ... sexennial ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Bills of Exchange, Promissory-notes, Bank-notes by Robert Thomson, John Dove Wilson (1865)
"The sexennial prescription of bills or notes is thus entirely the Nature of the
creature of statute. The period of six years was fixed upon, ..."
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