septenary
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Keep on dividing this number by 7 until there is nothing more left to divide, and the remainders will be found to be 11333311 which is 1,000,000 expressed in the septenary scale.
From Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney
Here the septenary is introduced in the May-day song of Ralph, the London apprentice, doubtless because of its popularity for such unliterary verse.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden
After the same manner a man is completed in the second septenary of years, and is capable of learning what is good and evil, and of discipline therein.
From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch
Poulter's Measure, an old-fashioned couplet, composed of an alexandrine and a septenary, a6a7, 88 f.
From The Principles of English Versification by Paull Franklin Baum
The sages applied the senary to the physical man; while the septenary was, for them, the symbol of his immortal spirit.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike
In this play the alexandrine is the dominant measure, though mingled with occasional septenaries still.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden
Chapman's translation of Iliad is the longest modern English poem in septenaries.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden
These are the literal meanings; the mystic meanings are very different, and among other things denote the septenary prismatic colours and other septenaries in nature.
From Simon Magus by George Robert Stow Mead
The poem opens with a septenary— "Tho Iesu Crist an eorthe was, mylde weren his dede;" and septenaries and alexandrines are used interchangeably.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden
The use of alexandrines and septenaries together, we have seen, was common even in the Middle English period, but not in regular alternation.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden
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