Sex"tile (?), a. [F. sextil, fr. L. sextus the sixth, from sex six. See Six.] Astrol.
Measured by sixty degrees; fixed or indicated by a distance of sixty degrees.
Glanvill.
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Sex"tile, n. [Cf. F. aspect sextil.] Astrol.
The aspect or position of two planets when distant from each other sixty degrees, or two signs. This position is marked thus: ⚹
Hutton.
© Webster 1913.