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Definition of Septennial
1. a. Lasting or continuing seven years; as, septennial parliaments.
Definition of Septennial
1. Adjective. Lasting or continuing seven years; as, septennial parliaments. ¹
2. Adjective. Happening or returning once in every seven years; as, septennial elections in England. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Septennial
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Septennial
Literary usage of Septennial
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire of the Most by Chauncey Allen Goodrich (1853)
"THE septennial Act was passed in 1716, extending the duration of Parliaments from
throe to seven »ears. By an extraordinary stretch of power, ..."
2. The Scots Digest of Scots Appeals in the House of Lords from 1707 and of the by Robert Candlish Henderson, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords (1908)
"The septennial limitation held (by the Lord Ordinary, and acquiesced in) not to
apply ... Held that the septennial limitation does not apply to a cautionary ..."
3. The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution: An Historical Treatise by Hannis Taylor (1898)
"While the country was still in a state of unrest by reason of The the Jacobite
rebellion of 1715, the Whigs resolved to prevent septennial a general ..."
4. The House of Lords Cases on Appeals and Writs of Error, Claims of Peerage by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, Charles Clark, William Finnelly (1868)
"septennial fines only become payable under the 19 & 20 Geo. ... and make the
delay, which thenceforward occurs, the ground for demanding septennial fines, ..."
5. The Popular History of England: An Illustrated History of Society and by Charles Knight (1860)
"The repeal of the septennial Act was the great domestic question of this Session.
The party that advocated a return to triennial parliaments would possess ..."
6. History of England: From the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles by Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope (1853)
"Many of the latter — Pulteney above all—had supported the septennial Act in 1716,
... The attack on the septennial Act took place on the 13th of March, ..."
7. English Constitutional History from the Teutonic Conquest to the Present Time by Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead (1905)
"septennial Act, 1716. with greater boldness and common sense. The Convention
Parliament which deposed James II.,1 and elected William and Mary, ..."
8. English Constitutional History from the Teutonic Conquest to the Present Time by Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead, Philip Arthur Ashworth (1905)
"septennial Act, 1716. with greater boldness and common sense. The Convention
Parliament which deposed James II.,1 and elected William and Mary, ..."
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