septenary
English
Etymology
From the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin septēnārius (“consisting of seven each”), from septēnī (“seven each”, “seven at a time”) + -ārius (whence the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English suffix -ary).
Pronunciation
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Adjective
septenary (not comparable)
- Consisting of or containing seven.
- Of seventh rank or order.
- 1899 October, W J McGee, The Beginning of Mathematics, in American Anthropologist 1(4), page 657, [1]
- ... 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.
- 1899 October, W J McGee, The Beginning of Mathematics, in American Anthropologist 1(4), page 657, [1]
- Lasting seven years; continuing seven years.
- (Can we date this quote by Fuller and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- Septenary penance.
- (Can we date this quote by Fuller and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
Translations
of seventh rank or order
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See also
- unary (1)
- primary (1st)
- binary (2)
- secondary (2nd)
- ternary (3)
- tertiary (3rd)
- quaternary (4)
- quinary (5)
- senary (6)
- octonary (8)
- nonary (9)
- denary (10)
- duodenary (12)
- vigenary (20)
Noun
septenary (plural septenaries)
- A group of seven things.
- A period of seven years.
- 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 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’.
- 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 596:
- (music) The seven notes of the diatonic scale.