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▪ I. sept, n.1|sɛpt|
[ad. L. sēptum: see septum.]
1. An enclosure; an area marked off for a special purpose; a fold (fig.).
1548in Strype Eccl. Mem. (1721) II. App. ZZZ. 403 Al the sept, scite, circuit and precincts of the college. a1638Mede Diatribæ (1642) 47 And yet was not this abuse..within those Septs of the Temple which the Jews accounted sacred. 1641J. Jackson True Evang. T. i. 28 What a ravenous beast he was, within the Sept of Christ. 1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. ii. Ad. Sect. xi. 24 Jesus entred the Temple, and espyed a Mart kept in the holy Sept, A Faire upon holy ground. 1719Prideaux Connect. O. & N.T. ii. ii. (ed. 4) 96 No stranger should enter within the Sept of the temple. 1883W. L. Kerr Abbey of Kilwinning v. 72 While William, Abbot of Kylwynnyng, with his convent, were assembled in the Septs of the Abbey.
2. Arch. A dividing screen, railing, etc.
1821Britton Antiq. Canterbury 61 [A chapel] inclosed with a double sept or rail of iron for fear of thieves. 1885Harper's Mag. Apr. 761/1 The nave [is] divided from the aisles by an arched sept.
▪ II. sept, n.2|sɛpt|
Also 6 cepte, 6–7 septe, 7 cept, seapt.
[prob. a var. of sect, which is used in the same sense in the 16th cent. (see sect n.1 7).
In OF. septe occurs in the 16th cent. as a by-form of sette (mod.F. secte):—L. secta; and It. setta, of the same origin, is found latinized as septa in mediæval documents. The spellings with p are perh. due to association with L. sēptum (see prec.).]
A division of a nation or tribe; a clan: orig. in reference to Ireland.
Occas. used by anthropologists (after Sir H. Maine, Early Hist. Institutions, 1875) for a clan consisting of those who are, or at least are believed to be, descendants of a common ancestor.
1517in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 399 No man..shall..receve..enny of the Burkes, MacWillams, the Kellies, nor no cepte elles. 1536St. Papers Hen. VIII, II. 373 ThErle of Desmonde, and the Geraldines of his kyn and septe. 1568–9Act 11 Eliz. in Bolton Stat. Irel. (1621) 321 The seapt of the Neyles. 1586J. Hooker Hist. Irel. in Holinshed II. 87/1 The sept of the Tooles. a1628F. Grevil Sidney (1652) 21 The professors of every faculty would have striven no less for him than the Seaven Cities did to have Homer of their Sept. 1665Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 135 The manner of living most usual amongst Hoords or Septs in Tartary. 1747Carte Hist. England I. 157 There was an infinite number of little tribes or Septs among the Cantabrians and Gallicians. 1814Scott Wav. xvi, Chiefs..whose word was accounted as a law by those of their own sept, or clan. 1847Grote Greece ii. ix. III. 54 Amphion belonged to the gens or sept of the Bacchiadæ. 1868Mill Eng. & Irel. 12 Before the Conquest, the Irish people knew nothing of absolute property in land. The land virtually belonged to the entire sept.
b. transf. A ‘tribe’ or class.
1610B. Rich Descr. Irel. 37 There are other Septes or professions, namely of Bardes, which are in manner of Poets or Rythmers. 1679Penn Addr. Prot. ii. (1692) 138 'Tis of this great Order and Sept of Men only, that all Synods and Convocations are compounded. 1856H. Miller Test. Rocks xii. (1857) 493 The very curious relations that united into one great sept the prevailing members of the Oolitic flora. |