septenary

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English

Etymology

From the Latin septēnārius (“consisting of seven each”), from septēnī (“seven each”, “seven at a time”) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /sɛpˈtiːnəɹi/
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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.
    • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; , London: Iohn Williams , →OCLC:
      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, published 2012, page 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.
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