septenary
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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 Augustus Le Plongeon
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
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
But on account of its customary pause after the fourth foot, it very early broke into two short lines of four and three stresses each, and thus the septenary couplet became the ballad stanza.
From The Principles of English Versification by Paull Franklin Baum
This specimen shows the new measure introduced into the drama in connection with the earlier rimed septenary.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Raymond MacDonald Alden
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
We find, therefore, tumbling verse, alexandrines, septenaries, and intricate strophic forms, all commonly written with slight regard for syllable-counting principles.
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
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
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
