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BOSTOCK v. CLAYTON COUNTY 

ALITO, J., dissenting
Appendix A to opinion of ALITO, J. 

1589 PUTTENHAM  Eng. Poesie III. xix. (Arb.) 235 As he that had tolde a long tale before 

certaine noble women, of a matter somewhat in honour touching the Sex. 1608 D. T[UVILL] 

Ess. Pol. & Mor. 101 b, Not yet weighing with himselfe, the weaknesse and imbecillitie of the 

sex. 1631 MASSINGER Emperor East I. ii, I am called The Squire of Dames, or Servant of the 

Sex. 1697 VANBRUGH Prov. Wife II. ii, He has a strange penchant to grow fond of me, in spite 

of his aversion to the sex. 1760-2 GOLDSM. Cit. W. xcix, The men of Asia behave with more 

deference to the sex than you seem to imagine. 1792 A. YOUNG Trav. France I. 220 The sex of 

Venice are undoubtedly of a distinguished beauty. 1823 BYRON Juan XIII. lxxix, We give the 

sex the pas. 1863 R. F. BURTON W. Africa I. 22 Going ‘up stairs’, as the sex says, at 5 a.m. on 

the day after arrival, I cast the first glance at Funchal.
  f.  Without  the,  in  predicative  quasi-adj.  use=feminine. 
rare. 

a 1700 DRYDEN  Cymon & Iph. 368 She hugg’d th’ Offender, and forgave th’ Offence, Sex 

to the last!
  2. Quality in respect of being male or female. 
a. With regard to persons or animals. 

1526 Pilgr. Perf. (W. de. W. 1531) 282 b, Ye bee, whiche neuer gendreth with ony make of 

his kynde, nor yet hath ony distinct sex. 1577 T. KENDALL Flowers of Epigr. 71 b, If by corps 

supposd may be her seex, then sure a virgin she. 1616 T. SCOTT Philomythie I. (ed. 2) A 3 

Euen as Hares change shape and sex, some say Once euery yeare. 1658 SIR T. BROWNE  Hy-

driot. iii. 18 A critical view of bones makes a good distinction of sexes. a 1665 DIGBY Chym. 

Secrets  (1682)  II. 225  Persons  of  all  Ages  and  Sexes. 1667  MILTON  P.  L.  I. 424  For  Spirits 

when they please can either Sex assume, or both. 1710-11 SWIFT Jrnl. to Stella 7 Mar., I find 

I was mistaken in the sex, ‘tis a boy. 1757 SMOLLETT Reprisal IV. v, As for me, my sex protects 

me. 1825 SCOTT Betrothed xiii, I am but a poor and neglected woman, feeble both from sex 

and age. 1841 ELPHINSTONE Hist. India I. 349 When persons of different sexes walk together, 

the woman always follows the man. 1882 TENSION-WOODS Fish N. S. Wales 116 Oysters are 

of distinct sexes.
  b. with regard to plants (see FEMALE  a. 2, MALE  a. 2). 

1567 MAPLET Gr. Forest 28 Some seeme to haue both sexes and kindes: as the Oke, the 

Lawrell and such others. 1631 WIDDOWES Nat. Philos. (ed. 2) 49 There be sexes of hearbes .. 

namely, the Male or Female. 1720 P. BLAIR Bot. Ess. iv. 237 These being very evident Proofs 

of a necessity of two Sexes in Plants as well as in Animals. 1790 SMELLIE Philos. Nat. Hist. I. 

245 There is not a notion more generally adopted, that that vegetables have the distinction of 

sexes. 1848 LINDLEY Introd. Bot. (ed. 4) II. 80 Change of Sex under the influence of external 

causes.