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sexpartite
[ seks-pahr-tahyt ]
adjective
- divided into or consisting of six parts.
- Architecture. (of a vault) divided into six compartments by two ogives and three transverse arches, one of which crosses the ogives at the point at which they cross each other.
sexpartite
/ ɛˈɑːٲɪ /
adjective
- (esp of vaults, arches, etc) divided into or composed of six parts
- maintained by or involving six participants or groups of participants
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of sexpartite1
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The Vaulting is generally simple, and acute, and usually of the quadripartite or sexpartite form.
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Sexpartite, seks′p�r-tīt, adj. divided into six parts.
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Sexpartite Vaulting.—Where each bay or compartment is divided by its main ribs into six portions.
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No. 4 represents one lay of a sexpartite Gothic vault.
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In Scott’s enumeration the vaults of octagons and irregular compartments, and such varieties as the one called sexpartite, find a place; here they have been intentionally excluded.
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