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Definition of Septuagenarians
1. septuagenarian [n] - See also: septuagenarian
Lexicographical Neighbors of Septuagenarians
Literary usage of Septuagenarians
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pioneers and Makers of Arkansas by Josiah Hazen Shinn (1908)
"Sevier County had a quartette of septuagenarians—John Dollarhide. ... In Clark
County they were limited to septuagenarians, but they beat Washington County ..."
2. Anniversary tribute to George Martin Kober, M.D, LL.D.: In Celebration of edited by Francis Anthony Tondorf (1920)
"It is a rare and a happy privilege accorded us tonight to celebrate the attainment
to the ranks of the septuagenarians of our friend and colleague and ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... 30 which they were in 1760, to two septuagenarians, whose deaths they awaited
to take possession of their effects, when the French Revolution broke out. ..."
4. Diet in Health and Disease by Julius Friedenwald, John Ruhräh (1907)
"Yet young patients are sometimes found to lose comparatively much nitrogen, and
septuagenarians comparatively little [T. Pfeiffer and W. Scholz (15)]. ..."
5. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1884)
"... both septuagenarians, whoso kind reception of me, comfortable quarters, and
excellent tea and cake, recalled the mind to homes north of the Tweed, ..."
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