septennial

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It could be, of course, that advancing years and their own septennial celebrity have made the subjects unwilling to spill their guts to their show-biz Mr. Chips.

From Time Magazine Archive

And then the fifth septennial Assembly of the World Council of Churches will settle down to the issues that trouble the non-Catholic wing of the ecumenical movement.

From Time Magazine Archive

It can change and create afresh even the constitution of the kingdom and of parliaments themselves; as was done by the act of union, and the several statutes for triennial and septennial elections.

From Commentaries on the Laws of England Book the First by Blackstone, William, Sir

Yet candour will own that to the same parliament every Englishman is deeply indebted: the septennial act, so vicious in its origin, has been sanctioned by time, experience, and the national consent.

From Memoirs of My Life and Writings by Gibbon, Edward

Thus, in 1741, which was the first year of a new septennial period, he guaranteed the country letters to produce �17,500; in 1748 he guaranteed them to produce �18,000; and in 1755, �18,500.

From The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 by Joyce, Herbert