Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Consisting of or relating to seven: as, a septenary number.
- Lasting seven years; occurring once in seven years: as, a septenary term; a septenary council.
- noun The number seven; the heptad.
- noun A group of seven things.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The number seven.
- adjective Consisting of, or relating to, seven.
- adjective Lasting seven years; continuing seven years.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Consisting of or containing
seven . - adjective Of
seventh rank ororder .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the cardinal number that is the sum of six and one
Etymologies
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Examples
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One of the oldest lines of modern English verse is the so-called septenary (septenarius), having had a nearly continuous tradition from the twelfth-century Poema Morale down (in its divided form) to the present.
The Principles of English Versification Paull Franklin Baum
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One example is a ritual producing a specific type of energy (associated say which a specific sphere of the septenary) and then directing this energy to a certain geographical area.
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Subsequently, septenary figures preoccupied Pico della Mirandola (Heptaplus), Giulio Camillo, John Dee, and Joachim Frizius, who wrote an influential treatise on Rosicrucianism in 1626.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Heraclitus and the Stoics say, that men begin their completeness when the second septenary of years begins, about which time the seminal serum is emitted.
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After the same manner a man is completed in the second septenary of years, and is capable of learning what is good and evil, and of discipline therein.
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Pantagruel, having writ his letters, sat down at table with him, and afterwards presented him with a large chain of gold, weighing eight hundred crowns, between whose septenary links some large diamonds, rubies, emeralds, turquoise stones, and unions were alternately set in.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Pantagruel, having writ his letters, sat down at table with him, and afterwards presented him with a large chain of gold, weighing eight hundred crowns, between whose septenary links some large diamonds, rubies, emeralds, turquoise stones, and unions were alternately set in.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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In the septenary system Baphomet, as Mistress of Earth, is linked to the sixth sphere (Jupiter) and the star Deneb.
The Watcher: The New Zealand Voice of the Left Hand Path #7 1991
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In contrast, the sinister aspect of the Mistress (i.e. Baphomet) was celebrated in the Autumn and was linked to the rising of Arcturus, Arcturus itself being related to the sinister male aspect (second sphere of the septenary), later identified with Lucifer/Satan.
The Watcher: The New Zealand Voice of the Left Hand Path #7 1991
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Hence, deriving the suggestion from the apparent septenary rest in nature, they taught that
Astral Worship J. H. Hill
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