different between degenerate vs sextate

English

Etymology

From Latin d?gener?tus, perfect passive participle of d?gener? (“to be inferior to one's ancestors, to become unlike one's race or kind, fall from ancestral quality”), from d?gener (“inferior to one’s predecessors”), from d?- (“off, away from”) +? genus (“birth, descent”); see genus.

Analyzable as de- +? generate

Pronunciation

• (adjective, noun) IPA^(key): /d??d??n???t/
• (verb) IPA^(key): /d??d??n??e?t/

Adjective

degenerate (comparative more degenerate, superlative most degenerate)

1. (of qualities) Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal.

   • faint-hearted and degenerate king
2. (of a human or system) Having lost good or desirable qualities.
   • 1726, Jonathan Swift, Verses on St. Patrick's Well

     As you grew more degenerate and base, I sent you millions of the croaking race

3. (of an encoding or function) Having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range.

   The genetic code is degenerate because a single amino acid can be coded by one of several codons.

4. (mathematics, of an eigenvalue) Having multiple different (linearly independent) eigenvectors.
5. (physics) Having the same quantum energy level.

Derived terms

• (physics) degenerate matter

Translations

Noun

degenerate (plural degenerates)

1. One who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature; an immoral person.

   In the cult of degenerates, acts of decency, kindness and modesty could be seen as acts of apostasy.

Translations

Verb

degenerate (third-person singular simple present degenerates, present participle degenerating, simple past and past participle degenerated)

1. (intransitive) To lose good or desirable qualities.

   His condition continued to degenerate even after admission to hospital.

   • 1870, Shirley Hibberd, Rustic Adornments for Homes of Taste (page 170)

     Another bird quickly learned to imitate the song of a canary that was mated with it, but as the parrakeet improved in the performance the canary degenerated, and came at last to mingle the other bird's harsh chitterings with its own proper music.

2. (transitive) To cause to lose good or desirable qualities.

Derived terms

• degeneration

Translations

References

Further reading

• degenerate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• degenerate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Italian

Adjective

degenerate

1. feminine plural of degenerato

Noun

degenerate f

1. plural of degenerata

Verb

degenerate

1. inflection of degenerare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

degenerate

1. feminine plural of degenerato

Latin

Verb

d?gener?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of d?gener?

English

Etymology

Latin sextus (“sixth”) + English -ate; compare quintate, septimate, and decimate

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, UK) enPR: s?ks?t?t, IPA^(key): /?s?kste?t/

Verb

sextate (third-person singular simple present sextates, present participle sextating, simple past and past participle sextated)

1. (rare) Reduce by one sixth.
   • 1791, Emanuel Swedenborg, The Apocalyp?e Revealed II, page 101

     Becau?e ?ix ?ignified Full, the Word to ?extate (to divide into ?ix, of to give a ?ixth Part) originated thence, by which in a ?piritual Sen?e is ?ignified that which is complete and entire, as That they ?hould Sextate an Ephah out of an Homer of Barley, (i. e. take a Sixth of an Ephah) Ezek. xlv. 13. and it is ?aid of Gog, I will turn thee back, and will Sextate thee (leave but a ?ixth Part of thee) Ezek. xxxix. 2. by which is ?ignified, that with him all Truth of Good in the Word ?hould be totally de?troyed; who are meant by Gog, may be ?een N. 850.

2. (rare) Reduce to one sixth.
   • 1791, Emanuel Swedenborg, The Apocalyp?e Revealed II, page 101

     Becau?e ?ix ?ignified Full, the Word to ?extate (to divide into ?ix, of to give a ?ixth Part) originated thence, by which in a ?piritual Sen?e is ?ignified that which is complete and entire, as That they ?hould Sextate an Ephah out of an Homer of Barley, (i. e. take a Sixth of an Ephah) Ezek. xlv. 13. and it is ?aid of Gog, I will turn thee back, and will Sextate thee (leave but a ?ixth Part of thee) Ezek. xxxix. 2. by which is ?ignified, that with him all Truth of Good in the Word ?hould be totally de?troyed; who are meant by Gog, may be ?een N. 850.

   • 1883, Thomas Goyder et al., The Science of Correspondences Elucidated (6th ed.), page 450

     By sextating, or leaving but a sixth part of Gog, is signified the total destruction of every truth derived from good in such a church.

Coordinate terms

• (reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part): tertiate (?), quintate (?), septimate (?), decimate (?), duodecimate (¹???), centesimate (¹????)

Adjective

sextate (not comparable)

1. (rare) sixfold; In groups of six.
   • 1907, Albert Mann and Percy Leroy Ricker, Report on the Diatoms of the Albatross Voyages in the Pacific Ocean, 1888–1904, page 293

     De Toni’s placing the quadrate form in Amphitetras and the sextate in Nothoceratium is of course indefensible.

2. (rare, physics) sixfold degenerate
   • 1967, Journal of the Indian Chemical Society XLIV:ii, page 990

     The room temperature magnetic moments of these complexes were determined by the Gouy method and the values are in the range 5.7—5.9 B.M. (Table), indicative of the presence of five unpaired electrons and the sextate ground state level in these complexes.

Noun

sextate

1. (rare, spectroscopy) A group of six peaks or lines
   • 1981, Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy: Physical sciences I, page 199

     Mössbauer spectrum of pure ?? Fe?O? (figure-1) shows a broadened sextate due to the presence of two subspectra.

   • 1987, Minoru Takahashi et al. [eds.], Proceedings of the International Symposium on Physics of Magnetic Materials, Sendai, Japan, April 8–11, 1987, page 392

     The spectrum could be best fitted with one sextate having broad lines which indicate the presence of more than one crystallographically nonequivalent iron sites.