“decimo、sexto”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

decimo-sexto

释义

ˈdecimo-ˈsexto ? Obs.
[for L. sexto decimo, ablative case (due to original occurrence with in) of sextus decimus sixteenth.]
A term denoting the size of a book, or of the page of a book, in which each leaf is one-sixteenth of a full sheet; properly sexto-decimo (usually abbreviated 16mo.). Also applied fig. to a diminutive person or thing.
1599B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. i. i, How now! my dancing braggart in decimo sexto! charm your skipping tongue.1608Middleton Five Gallants i. i, Neither in folio nor in decimo sexto, but in octavo.1656Artif. Handsom. 75 Our stature..if shrunk to a dwarfishnesse and epitomized to a Decimo-sexto.1659D. Pell Impr. of Sea 286 The little decimo sextos that be both in the Sea and Land..the small fish..as well as..the great folios of the Whale, and Elephant.1706Hearne Collect. 4 Feb., As in Octavo's and Decimo-Sexto's.

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