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Webster 1913 Edition


Septenary

Sep′ten-a-ry

,
Adj.
[L.
septenairus
, from
septeni
seven each,
septem
seven: cf. F.
septénaire
. See
Seven
. ]
1.
Consisting of, or relating to, seven;
as, a
septenary
number
.
I. Watts.
2.
Lasting seven years; continuing seven years.
Septenary penance.”
Fuller.

Sep′ten-a-ry

,
Noun.
The number seven.
[R.]
Holinshed.

Webster 1828 Edition


Septenary

SEP'TENARY

,
Adj.
[L. septenarius, from septem, seven.] Consisting of seven; as a sepenary number.

SEP'TENARY

,
Noun.
The number seven.

Definition 2024


septenary

septenary

English

Adjective

septenary (not comparable)

  1. Consisting of or containing seven.
  2. Of seventh rank or order.
    • 1899 October, W J McGee, The Beginning of Mathematics, in American Anthropologist 1(4), page 657,
      ... indeed if further evidence than that of bestial and savage counting were required to show that finger-numeration and the quinary system were not primeval, it would be afforded by the development of the senary-septenary system in so many lands.
  3. Lasting seven years; continuing seven years.
    • Fuller
      Septenary penance.

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Noun

septenary (plural septenaries)

  1. A group of seven things.
  2. A period of seven years.
    • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 596:
      This idea was based on the doctrine that a man's body changed its character every seven years and that his life was thus made up of ‘septenaries’.
  3. (music) The seven notes of the diatonic scale.