Sexagenary \Sex*ag"e*na*ry\, a. [L. sexagenarius, fr. sexageni sixty each, akin to sexaginta sixty, sex six: cf. sexag['e]naire. See {Six}.] Pertaining to, or designating, the number sixty; poceeding by sixties; sixty years old. [1913 Webster] {Sexagenary arithmetic}. See under {Sexagesimal}. {Sexagenary scale}, or {Sexagesimal scale} (Math.), a scale of numbers in which the modulus is sixty. It is used in treating the divisions of the circle. [1913 Webster]
Sexagenary \Sex*ag"e*na*ry\, n. 1. Something composed of sixty parts or divisions. [1913 Webster] 2. A sexagenarian. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]