septenary
Example Sentences
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This is a rare instance of the use of the long septenary in nineteenth-century poetry.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald
No number has ever been so universally in repute as the septenary.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert
Some authors pretend to assume that this well marked septenary system has reference to the Pleiades or Seven stars.
From Vestiges of the Mayas or, Facts Tending to Prove that Communications and Intimate Relations Must Have Existed, in very Remote Times, Between the Inhabitants of Mayab and Those of Asia and Africa by Le Plongeon, Augustus
After that, causing the rock to be moved at His command, the Tathagata made it divide itself into a seventh additional chamber, remarking that a rock too was septenary, and had seven stages of development.
From Five Years of Theosophy by Various
The turn of a four-dimensional world is near, but the puzzle of science will ever continue until their concepts reach the natural dimensions of visible and invisible space—in its septenary completeness.
From Five Years of Theosophy by Various
