Sixtine

American  

[siks-teen, -tin, -tahyn] / ˈsɪks tin, -tɪn, -taɪn /

adjective

1. Sistine.

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Example Sentences

Walls and towers encircled the Leonine City where the Pope sat unquietly in the big battlemented donjon by the Sixtine Chapel; and in its midst was still old St. Peter's, half Lombard, half Byzantine.

From Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion by Lee, Vernon

Perhaps this same policy was most glaring of all in Sixtine Rome, where the Papal States were taxed, as the provinces of the Empire had been before, to keep bread cheap in the city.

From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved

Sixtine deals with the adventures of a masculine brain.

From Unicorns by Huneker, James

Also that she wrote an article about the Sixtine Chapel for the Revue du Monde Catholique—"a brilliant article: all fireworks, like her speech"; finally, that "she is writing an essay on friendship."

From Franz Liszt by Huneker, James

S. John Lateran's on account of the baptism of adults, and the Sixtine chapel, where the service is always beautiful, and particularly on this day.

From The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome by Baggs, Charles Michael