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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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Sex, n.1 Also: sexe. [ME and e.m.E. sex (Wyclif), sexe (1532), OF sexe (c1265 in Larousse), L. sexus.]
1. The sex or gender of a person.1558 Knox IV 383.
That women in those partes were not tamed nor embased by consideration of their own sex and kind 1572 Buch. Detect. (1727) 90.
Sall we beir with hir age, sexe and unadvisitnes, that [etc.]? 1597 Misc. Spald. C. I 109.
Sche … is reportit be all, of quhat sumevir estate or sex, to be a … wicth 1597 James VI Dæmonol. (STS) 30/29.
As was … proued … by the serpents deceiuing of Eua … , which makes him the homelier with that sexe sensine 1606 Birnie Kirk-b. vii.
They had their made out mourners of the feminine sex 1631 Justiciary Cases I 157.
Bot the vacillatioun of ane disturbit spreit of ane pure woman in hir sex fraill
2. Grammatical gender.c1616 Hume Orthog. 28.
Nounes that want sex are noated with it; as, it is a tale tree
