septalogue

English[edit]

septalogue (plural not attested)

A conversation between seven people.
- 1987, Ken Macrorie, Twenty Teachers, page 118:
  In 1936 my class consisted of six students, all of whom had possessed enough curiosity to enroll in a course with the strange name of "Speech Pathology." We explored the subject together, a modus operandi which still constitutes the base structure of the course. But then we could talk informally with much commentary, prediction and recall as well as nonsense They used to refer to it as their “sharing time.” Usually it was more of a septalogue than a dialogue, but the mutual identification of student and teacher was always present.
A series of seven statements.
- 1997, Steven B. Smith, Spinoza, Liberalism, and the Question of Jewish Identity, page 116:
  His claim to be doing nothing more than laying bare the moral teachings of the prophets and apostles is belied by his replacement of the old Decalogue with a new septalogue.