Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A group of seven.
- noun A period of seven days; a week.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The number seven; the idea of seven, or the quality of being seven in number.
- noun The sum of seven things; a collection of seven persons or things; specifically, a group of seven days; a week.
- noun In some Gnostic systems, a group of super-human beings, angels, or divine emanations; in the systems of Basilides and Valentinus, the sphere of the Demiurge, sublunary, and lower than the ogdoad, or a title of the Demiurge himself.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A week; a period of seven days.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A group of
seven . - noun A period of seven days, a
week . - noun Gnosticism A group of seven superhuman beings.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any period of seven consecutive days
Etymologies
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"hebdomad", a series corresponding to the chief divinities of the pagan pantheon: from these are derived "forces", or "souls", which alone are operative in nature, although, since they are the lowest derivatives, their efficacy is least.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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It's Holy Week, the most important hebdomad in the Christian calendar.
Rewards that will be great somewhere Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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It's Holy Week, the most important hebdomad in the Christian calendar.
Archive 2007-04-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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Because we do not accept their monstrous allegations, they say that we go on living in the hebdomad [the lower regions], as if we could not lift our minds to the things on high, nor understand the things that are above.
The Gnostic shuffle ... Frank Wilson 2006
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We caught up with BianRosa this hebdomad to intend an update.
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[Marginal note: Quadragesime.] xl. et equitando, quantum equi trotare poterant, quoniam habebamus equos recentes fer� ter aut quater omni die, properabamus de mane vsque ad noctem, im� etiam de nocte s鎝issim�, nec tamen ante quartam feriam maioris hebdomad� potuimus ad ipsum peruenire.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Their mother dwells in that place which is above the heavens, that is, in the intermediate abode; the Demiurge in the heavenly place, that is, in the hebdomad; but the Cosmocrator in this our world.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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It is supposed that for the first three and a half years of the hebdomad (Da 9: 20-27), God will be worshipped in the temple; in the latter three and a half years,
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Why he should choose to express that interval by fifty, rather than by fifty-two, weeks, may be surmised in two ways: first, because the latter phrase would be unpoetical and unmanageable; and, secondly, because he might fancy that the week of the Pagan Theseus would be more appropriately represented by a lunar quarter than by a Jewish hebdomad.
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But on their new album, Seven Steps out Feb. 21, its members circle around the mysterious - and some might even say spiritual - power of the hebdomad.
News 2012
bilby commented on the word hebdomad
It's only Monday so here's a chance to liven up your week!
October 6, 2008
knitandpurl commented on the word hebdomad
"The Councillors, not knowing what to do, kept their hands up or stuck in mid-motion. She approached their dazed hebdomad and their startled servants, stiffening her backbone, cocking the hammers of her eyes."
Aurorarama by Jean-Christophe Valtat, p 387
July 24, 2011