Definition of Septenaries

1. septenary [n] - See also: septenary

Lexicographical Neighbors of Septenaries

septated
septation
septations
septcentenaries
septcentenary
septectomy
september
septembral
septemfluous
septemia
septempartite
septemtrioun
septemvirate
septemvirates
septenaries (current term)
septenarii
septenarius
septenary
septenate
septendecillion
septendecillions
septendecimal
septennate
septennates
septennial
septennially
septentrial
septentrio
septentrion

Literary usage of Septenaries

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Miracle in Stone: Or, the Great Pyramid of Egypt by Joseph Augustus Seiss (1877)
"septenaries AND SABBATHS. But time reckonings demand some special system of smaller fractions which cannot be made by mere decades, tens, or hundreds. ..."

2. Horæ Apocalypticæ: Or, A Commentary on the Apocalypse, Critical and by Edward Bishop Elliott (1847)
"Perhaps the supposition of its being septenaries of days may have ... It is to their understanding it afterwards as septenaries of years that we may very ..."

3. Discourses on the book of Revelation: With an Introduction by Alexander Gregory (1879)
"But although there are only three septenaries, and these occupy a comparatively small part of the whole book, yet they not only form a striking feature in ..."

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