septenaryadj.n.

Brit.

/sɛpˈtiːn(ə)ri/,

/sɛpˈtɛn(ə)ri/,

/ˈsɛptᵻn(ə)ri/, U.S.

/sɛpˈtɛnəri/,

/ˈsɛptəˌnɛri/

Forms: late Middle English–1500s septenarye, late Middle English–1600s septenarie, late Middle English– septenary, 1600s septynary, 1700s septinary.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin septēnārius.

Etymology: < classical Latin septēnārius containing seven of anything, consisting of seven, in post-classical Latin also (of a line of poetry) consisting of seven metrical feet (4th cent.) < septēnī seven each ( < septem seven (see septem- comb. form) + -ēnī , suffix forming distributive adjectives) + -ārius -ary suffix¹.Compare Middle French, French septénaire containing or lasting seven days, months, or years (c1300 in Old French), Portuguese septenârio (14th cent.). With use as noun compare septenarius n. Compare also classical Latin septēnārius line of seven feet, in post-classical Latin also unit that consists of seven parts (8th cent. in a British source), period of seven years (14th cent. in a British source), Middle French, French septénaire the number seven (1568), period of seven years (1694).

A. adj.

a. Of seven; relating to the number seven; forming a group of seven; constituted of or divided into seven parts.Recorded earliest in septenary number n. at Compounds.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > seven > [adjective]

sevenOE

septenaryc1484

sevenfolda1555

septenarious1656

septimal1791

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > seven > [adjective] > forming group of seven

septenary1561

sevensome1816

c1484 (a1475) J. de Caritate tr. Secreta Secret. (Takamiya) (1977) 188 (MED) Þe circuit of þe mone goyth be seuyn..and many odyr longen to þe nombyr septenary [a1500 Lamb. of seuen] þat wer longe to reherse.

1561 J. Daus tr. H. Bullinger Hundred Serm. vpon Apocalips iii. 21 The holy ghost where he is but one, for the seuenfolde that is all maner of grace and giftes manifold, is here called, as I may say, Septenarie [L. septenarius] or of the seuenth numbre.

1593 J. Napier Plaine Discouery Reuelation St. Iohn ii. iv. 102 These seuen Lampes, or seuen Spirites, illuminating Gods throne, are the seuen speciall and princincipall [sic] giftes, graces, and functions of Gods onlie Spirite... And this septenarie partition hereof, to be receiued of old, is euident by the Hymne Ueni Creator Spiritus, where after it is saide, Tu septiformis munere, &c.

1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. iv. iv Between whose Septenary Links [Fr. chainons septenaires],..Rubies, Emeralds, and Unions were..set in.

1855 P. J. Bailey Mystic 64 The septenary stars.

1983 A. Leo Esoteric Astrol. (1989) xxii. 260 In the Threefold classification of signs, with decanates arranged in septenary groups all are of the same element.

1994 Novum Testamentum 36 373 Collins is the most prominent contemporary exponent of a septenary or seven-fold structure [of the book of Revelation].

b. With reference to a period of time: based on the number seven; spec. weekly; lasting seven days, years, etc.; recurring every seven days.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > period > [adjective] > of systems of divisions

septenary1606

the world > time > period > a week > [adjective] > of or relating to division of time into weeks

septenary1606

1606 tr. J. D. Du Perron in D. Tilenus Positions held by Bishop of Eureux 43 God marked and poynted them out a day, at which he would haue them begin to reckon and account their septenary reuolution.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. iv. 212 This containeth but 27. dayes, and about 8. howres, which commeth short to compleat the septenary account.

1708 Brit. Apollo 27–29 Oct. So is one in seven in a Constant Septinary return.

1745 R. James Med. Dict. Septana, a septinary Fever; that is, one which performs its Period in seven Days.

1848 R. W. Hamilton Disq. Sabbath i. 16 That septenary notation of days which we call the week.

1866 J. G. Murphy Crit. Comm. Exodus xvi. 23 Traces of the septenary division of time have been found among the Egyptians.

1951 C. Heline New Age Bible Interpr. (rev. ed.) IV. ii. v. 49 The age of twenty-eight marks the completion of the fourth septenary cycle when, in the occult sense, the true mental life of the ego is considered to have begun.

2005 H. Zafrani 2000 Years Jewish Life in Morocco ii. 108 There is a ceremony marking the ending of the septenary period of mourning.

†a. Consisting of seven lines. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use.

ΚΠ

1815 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 12 69 Lydgate..preferred the septenary stanza.

b. Prosody. Having seven metrical feet in a line. Also occasionally (with reference to Middle English poetry): having seven stresses in a line or couplet.

ΚΠ

1815 S. E. Brydges Restituta III. 440 82 stanzas, written in the septenary measure.

1898 B. E. Lovewell in Life St. Cecilia 62 Probable Alexandrines are the lines... Some of these [lines] MS. Laud. enlarges to septenary form.

1926 PMLA 41 814 Professor Davidson..advanced the theory that the metre was based on a corruption of the Latin septenary stanza.

2008 R. Purdie Anglicising Romance i. 30 The..ballad quatrain, or ‘common measure’, is a recognisable development of septenary couplets with regular caesura after the fourth stress.

B. n.

1. A group or set of seven.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > seven > [noun] > group of seven

septenarya1500

seven1548

sevenfold1548

sevensome1568

septarchy1630

septuary1656

septuplet1795

septet1832

a1500 (?c1425) Speculum Sacerdotale (1936) 50 (MED) There ben vii werkis of mercie..for we be delyuered fro the captiuite of the devell and beth a-soylid by the septenarie of these mercifull werkis, we shall come to heuenly Jerusalem.

1594 Mirrour Policie (1599) 223 The seuen gifts of the Holy ghost, the seuen orders of the Church, seuen workes of mercy,..with sundry other septenaries.

1614 A. Roberts (title) A sacred septenarie, or the seuen last wordes of our Sauiour Christ vttered vpon the crosse.

1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 231 The sacred septenary of the most highly-renowned men, for prudence and true wisdom.

1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica i. xv. 99 The Moon, which..runs from her Month to her Month by Septenaries.

1823 G. S. Faber Treat. Christian Dispensations I. vi. 258 A septenary of erratic living animals, which are the seven Worlds or seven Planets.

1883 G. Massey Nat. Genesis II. xii. 312 The septenary of stars seen in the Great Bear.

1921 E. C. Farnsworth Deeper Myst. 132 Our seven-fold world, or globe chain, is a septenary of concentric spheres.

1997 A. Spatafora From Temple of God to God as Temple 146 The opening of the seventh seal..marks the beginning of the septenary of the trumpets.

2. A period of seven years. Also occasionally: a period of seven weeks, days, etc.Frequently with reference to the (now historical) idea that human life is divided into a series of ages, each lasting seven years. In ancient astrology, a person was thought to experience a climacteric (climacteric n. 2a) every seventh year.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > period > year > [noun] > period of specific number of years

hendecadOE

a week of yearsa1382

weekc1384

Olympiada1387

lustre1387

yearc1425

millenary1551

prenticeship1553

septenary1576

lustrum1590

quinquennal1590

seventy1590

septimane1603

quinquennie1606

threescore (years) and tena1616

duodecad1621

quinquennium1621

jubilee1643

quadrenniala1646

chiliad1653

septennary1659

septennium1660

triennial1661

millennium1664

tetraëterid1678

octennial1679

duodenary1681

quadrennium1779

septenniad1836

quinquenniad1842

milliad1843

tricentenary1846

triennium1847

vicennium1847

bimillenary1850

lustration1853

sexennium1858

septennate1874

quinquennial1877

pentad1880

sexennate1898

aeon1960

1576 R. Robinson tr. F. Patrizi Moral Methode Ciuile Policie v. f. 55 There is a certayne concinnitie or aptnes of the vertues of the mynde, which remayneth in y^e ninth septenarie [L. septenario] or seuen yeares.

a1639 H. Wotton Surv. Educ. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 78 Certain Periods, or Degrees of Change..every seven years; whereof the two first Septynaries..I will call the Obsequious Age.

1660 tr. M. Amyraut Treat. conc. Relig. iii. v. 395 Septenaries of daies, or weeks, or months, or years, or ages?

1753 J. Nelson Ess. Govt. Children 35 A Girl enter'd into the third Septenary passes soon into a Woman.

1861 O. W. Holmes Elsie Venner xix. 208 If Elsie could only outlive three septenaries, twenty-one years.

1930 L. P. Brown Cosmic Teeth 16 Some of the ancients assigned 10 × 7 = 70 years to the normal span of human life..; the second septenary of that span sometimes being recognized as marked by the eruption of the second and permanent teeth.

1997 D. Ovason Secrets Nostradamus (2002) Pref. p. xix A widely held belief that world had been created about 5000 b.c., and would endure for a sabbath, or septenary, of millennia.

†a. A poem or stanza with seven lines. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 115/2 She was buried in the nunrie of Goodstow beside Oxford, with these verses vpon hir toome... The meaning whereof may be found in Graftons large chronicle, page 77. in an English septenarie.

b. Prosody. A line of seven metrical feet, esp. the trochaic or iambic tetrameter catalectic. Cf. septenarius n.Frequently applied to the English metre represented, e.g. by the verse of the Poema Morale and the Ormulum (both composed in the second half of the 12th cent.).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [noun] > variety of > septenary

septenarius1706

septenary1819

septenar1882

sevener1920

1819 A. Rees Cycl. XXXVII. at Versification Although this verse consists of fourteen syllables, it is not absolutely necessary to divide it into two exact sevens, with all the rules which are essential to each septenary.

1887 C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary Introd. p. ix [MS. Egerton] generally shortens the lines from septenaries to Alexandrine verses, by omitting words [etc.].

1951 A. H. Quinn Lit. Amer. People ii. xv. 255 Some lovers of Homer will prefer the five-stress couplet of Pope or the septenary of Chapman.

2016 D. Minkova in L. Neidorf et al. Old Eng. Philol. vii. 130 The astonishing precision of the Ormulum septenary applies to both foot-structure and syllabic count.

4. The number seven. Cf. septenary number n. at Compounds.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > seven > [noun]

sevenOE

septenary1598

1598 I. D. tr. L. Le Roy Aristotles Politiques v. xii. 336 The septenary [Fr. septenaire] ioined to a quinary maketh twelue.

1653 H. More Second Lash of Alazonomastix 161 The Hebdomad or Septenary is a fit Symbole of God, as he is considered having finished these six days Creation.

1690 T. Burnet Theory of Earth iv. iii. 148 Those constitutions of Moses that proceed so much upon a Septenary, or the number Seven.

1886 A. E. Waite tr. E. Levi Myst. Magic 69 The number seven, or the septenary, is the sacred number of all theogonies and all symbols, because it is composed of the triad and tetrad.

1936 Theosophical Forum Oct. 269 The number seven, spoken of also as the septenate or septenary or heptad, is the most important number in symbology.

1991 J. Michell & C. Rhone Twelve-tribe Nations vi. 87 The original circle..represents the natural, nomadic state of existence, when the dominant numerical symbol was the Septenary.

†5. Music. The seven notes of a diatonic scale. In early use: a set of seven notes in a diatonic scale in a certain pitch range. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > system of sounds or intervals > [noun] > diatonic scale series

octave1603

septenary1636

octachord1664

resolve1721

1636 C. Butler Princ. Musik i. ii. 9 Within dhe ordinari compas of humane voices..ar conteined..3 Septenariz of Musical Notes.

1654 J. Playford Breefe Introd. Skill Musick i. i. 2 By these three Septenaries are distinguished the severall tones or sounds, which the Scale is divided into.

1776 J. Hawkins Gen. Hist. Music II. ii. viii. 214 To shew the analogy between the seven planets and the chords included in the musical septenary.

1776 J. Hawkins Gen. Hist. Music IV. i. ix. 135 To produce the notes in the second septenary, and so upwards, a different method of stopping is required than for their [sc. flutes'] octaves below.

1875 J. Hullah Time & Tune App. p. xiv In the middle row of syllables is the unaltered diatonic septenary; in the upper is the same septenary altered by sharps.

Compounds

septenary number n. now rare. the number seven. [Compare classical Latin numerus septēnārius, Middle French, French nombre septénaire (1552).]

ΚΠ

a1500 (?c1425) Speculum Sacerdotale (1936) 158 (MED) The grace of whiche Holy Gost is seuenfold, þe whiche septenarye nombre the Jewis gretly kepeþ, and that noȝt with-oute fygowre.

1641 H. L'Estrange Gods Sabbath 29 This septenary number gained Authority from the creation of the world, because the first works of God were made in six dayes, and the seventh was dedicated to rest as sacred.

2010 L. López-Baralt in H. Kallendorf New Compan. Hispanic Mysticism ii. 190 For Saint Gregory the septenary number implied consummate perfection because it is composed of a first pair and of a first non-pair, and of a pair that can be divided and of the first non-pair that cannot be divided.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	septenary
释义	septenaryadj.n. Brit. /sɛpˈtiːn(ə)ri/, /sɛpˈtɛn(ə)ri/, /ˈsɛptᵻn(ə)ri/, U.S. /sɛpˈtɛnəri/, /ˈsɛptəˌnɛri/ Forms: late Middle English–1500s septenarye, late Middle English–1600s septenarie, late Middle English– septenary, 1600s septynary, 1700s septinary. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin septēnārius. Etymology: < classical Latin septēnārius containing seven of anything, consisting of seven, in post-classical Latin also (of a line of poetry) consisting of seven metrical feet (4th cent.) < septēnī seven each ( < septem seven (see septem- comb. form) + -ēnī , suffix forming distributive adjectives) + -ārius -ary suffix¹.Compare Middle French, French septénaire containing or lasting seven days, months, or years (c1300 in Old French), Portuguese septenârio (14th cent.). With use as noun compare septenarius n. Compare also classical Latin septēnārius line of seven feet, in post-classical Latin also unit that consists of seven parts (8th cent. in a British source), period of seven years (14th cent. in a British source), Middle French, French septénaire the number seven (1568), period of seven years (1694). A. adj. 1. a. Of seven; relating to the number seven; forming a group of seven; constituted of or divided into seven parts.Recorded earliest in septenary number n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > seven > [adjective] sevenOE septenaryc1484 sevenfolda1555 septenarious1656 septimal1791 the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > seven > [adjective] > forming group of seven septenary1561 sevensome1816 c1484 (a1475) J. de Caritate tr. Secreta Secret. (Takamiya) (1977) 188 (MED) Þe circuit of þe mone goyth be seuyn..and many odyr longen to þe nombyr septenary [a1500 Lamb. of seuen] þat wer longe to reherse. 1561 J. Daus tr. H. Bullinger Hundred Serm. vpon Apocalips iii. 21 The holy ghost where he is but one, for the seuenfolde that is all maner of grace and giftes manifold, is here called, as I may say, Septenarie [L. septenarius] or of the seuenth numbre. 1593 J. Napier Plaine Discouery Reuelation St. Iohn ii. iv. 102 These seuen Lampes, or seuen Spirites, illuminating Gods throne, are the seuen speciall and princincipall [sic] giftes, graces, and functions of Gods onlie Spirite... And this septenarie partition hereof, to be receiued of old, is euident by the Hymne Ueni Creator Spiritus, where after it is saide, Tu septiformis munere, &c. 1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. iv. iv Between whose Septenary Links [Fr. chainons septenaires],..Rubies, Emeralds, and Unions were..set in. 1855 P. J. Bailey Mystic 64 The septenary stars. 1983 A. Leo Esoteric Astrol. (1989) xxii. 260 In the Threefold classification of signs, with decanates arranged in septenary groups all are of the same element. 1994 Novum Testamentum 36 373 Collins is the most prominent contemporary exponent of a septenary or seven-fold structure [of the book of Revelation]. b. With reference to a period of time: based on the number seven; spec. weekly; lasting seven days, years, etc.; recurring every seven days. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > [adjective] > of systems of divisions septenary1606 the world > time > period > a week > [adjective] > of or relating to division of time into weeks septenary1606 1606 tr. J. D. Du Perron in D. Tilenus Positions held by Bishop of Eureux 43 God marked and poynted them out a day, at which he would haue them begin to reckon and account their septenary reuolution. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. iv. 212 This containeth but 27. dayes, and about 8. howres, which commeth short to compleat the septenary account. View more context for this quotation 1708 Brit. Apollo 27–29 Oct. So is one in seven in a Constant Septinary return. 1745 R. James Med. Dict. Septana, a septinary Fever; that is, one which performs its Period in seven Days. 1848 R. W. Hamilton Disq. Sabbath i. 16 That septenary notation of days which we call the week. 1866 J. G. Murphy Crit. Comm. Exodus xvi. 23 Traces of the septenary division of time have been found among the Egyptians. 1951 C. Heline New Age Bible Interpr. (rev. ed.) IV. ii. v. 49 The age of twenty-eight marks the completion of the fourth septenary cycle when, in the occult sense, the true mental life of the ego is considered to have begun. 2005 H. Zafrani 2000 Years Jewish Life in Morocco ii. 108 There is a ceremony marking the ending of the septenary period of mourning. 2. †a. Consisting of seven lines. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1815 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 12 69 Lydgate..preferred the septenary stanza. b. Prosody. Having seven metrical feet in a line. Also occasionally (with reference to Middle English poetry): having seven stresses in a line or couplet. ΚΠ 1815 S. E. Brydges Restituta III. 440 82 stanzas, written in the septenary measure. 1898 B. E. Lovewell in Life St. Cecilia 62 Probable Alexandrines are the lines... Some of these [lines] MS. Laud. enlarges to septenary form. 1926 PMLA 41 814 Professor Davidson..advanced the theory that the metre was based on a corruption of the Latin septenary stanza. 2008 R. Purdie Anglicising Romance i. 30 The..ballad quatrain, or ‘common measure’, is a recognisable development of septenary couplets with regular caesura after the fourth stress. B. n. 1. A group or set of seven. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > seven > [noun] > group of seven septenarya1500 seven1548 sevenfold1548 sevensome1568 septarchy1630 septuary1656 septuplet1795 septet1832 a1500 (?c1425) Speculum Sacerdotale (1936) 50 (MED) There ben vii werkis of mercie..for we be delyuered fro the captiuite of the devell and beth a-soylid by the septenarie of these mercifull werkis, we shall come to heuenly Jerusalem. 1594 Mirrour Policie (1599) 223 The seuen gifts of the Holy ghost, the seuen orders of the Church, seuen workes of mercy,..with sundry other septenaries. 1614 A. Roberts (title) A sacred septenarie, or the seuen last wordes of our Sauiour Christ vttered vpon the crosse. 1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 231 The sacred septenary of the most highly-renowned men, for prudence and true wisdom. 1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica i. xv. 99 The Moon, which..runs from her Month to her Month by Septenaries. 1823 G. S. Faber Treat. Christian Dispensations I. vi. 258 A septenary of erratic living animals, which are the seven Worlds or seven Planets. 1883 G. Massey Nat. Genesis II. xii. 312 The septenary of stars seen in the Great Bear. 1921 E. C. Farnsworth Deeper Myst. 132 Our seven-fold world, or globe chain, is a septenary of concentric spheres. 1997 A. Spatafora From Temple of God to God as Temple 146 The opening of the seventh seal..marks the beginning of the septenary of the trumpets. 2. A period of seven years. Also occasionally: a period of seven weeks, days, etc.Frequently with reference to the (now historical) idea that human life is divided into a series of ages, each lasting seven years. In ancient astrology, a person was thought to experience a climacteric (climacteric n. 2a) every seventh year. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > [noun] > period of specific number of years hendecadOE a week of yearsa1382 weekc1384 Olympiada1387 lustre1387 yearc1425 millenary1551 prenticeship1553 septenary1576 lustrum1590 quinquennal1590 seventy1590 septimane1603 quinquennie1606 threescore (years) and tena1616 duodecad1621 quinquennium1621 jubilee1643 quadrenniala1646 chiliad1653 septennary1659 septennium1660 triennial1661 millennium1664 tetraëterid1678 octennial1679 duodenary1681 quadrennium1779 septenniad1836 quinquenniad1842 milliad1843 tricentenary1846 triennium1847 vicennium1847 bimillenary1850 lustration1853 sexennium1858 septennate1874 quinquennial1877 pentad1880 sexennate1898 aeon1960 1576 R. Robinson tr. F. Patrizi Moral Methode Ciuile Policie v. f. 55 There is a certayne concinnitie or aptnes of the vertues of the mynde, which remayneth in y^e ninth septenarie [L. septenario] or seuen yeares. a1639 H. Wotton Surv. Educ. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 78 Certain Periods, or Degrees of Change..every seven years; whereof the two first Septynaries..I will call the Obsequious Age. 1660 tr. M. Amyraut Treat. conc. Relig. iii. v. 395 Septenaries of daies, or weeks, or months, or years, or ages? 1753 J. Nelson Ess. Govt. Children 35 A Girl enter'd into the third Septenary passes soon into a Woman. 1861 O. W. Holmes Elsie Venner xix. 208 If Elsie could only outlive three septenaries, twenty-one years. 1930 L. P. Brown Cosmic Teeth 16 Some of the ancients assigned 10 × 7 = 70 years to the normal span of human life..; the second septenary of that span sometimes being recognized as marked by the eruption of the second and permanent teeth. 1997 D. Ovason Secrets Nostradamus (2002) Pref. p. xix A widely held belief that world had been created about 5000 b.c., and would endure for a sabbath, or septenary, of millennia. 3. †a. A poem or stanza with seven lines. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 115/2 She was buried in the nunrie of Goodstow beside Oxford, with these verses vpon hir toome... The meaning whereof may be found in Graftons large chronicle, page 77. in an English septenarie. b. Prosody. A line of seven metrical feet, esp. the trochaic or iambic tetrameter catalectic. Cf. septenarius n.Frequently applied to the English metre represented, e.g. by the verse of the Poema Morale and the Ormulum (both composed in the second half of the 12th cent.). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [noun] > variety of > septenary septenarius1706 septenary1819 septenar1882 sevener1920 1819 A. Rees Cycl. XXXVII. at Versification Although this verse consists of fourteen syllables, it is not absolutely necessary to divide it into two exact sevens, with all the rules which are essential to each septenary. 1887 C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary Introd. p. ix [MS. Egerton] generally shortens the lines from septenaries to Alexandrine verses, by omitting words [etc.]. 1951 A. H. Quinn Lit. Amer. People ii. xv. 255 Some lovers of Homer will prefer the five-stress couplet of Pope or the septenary of Chapman. 2016 D. Minkova in L. Neidorf et al. Old Eng. Philol. vii. 130 The astonishing precision of the Ormulum septenary applies to both foot-structure and syllabic count. 4. The number seven. Cf. septenary number n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > seven > [noun] sevenOE septenary1598 1598 I. D. tr. L. Le Roy Aristotles Politiques v. xii. 336 The septenary [Fr. septenaire] ioined to a quinary maketh twelue. 1653 H. More Second Lash of Alazonomastix 161 The Hebdomad or Septenary is a fit Symbole of God, as he is considered having finished these six days Creation. 1690 T. Burnet Theory of Earth iv. iii. 148 Those constitutions of Moses that proceed so much upon a Septenary, or the number Seven. 1886 A. E. Waite tr. E. Levi Myst. Magic 69 The number seven, or the septenary, is the sacred number of all theogonies and all symbols, because it is composed of the triad and tetrad. 1936 Theosophical Forum Oct. 269 The number seven, spoken of also as the septenate or septenary or heptad, is the most important number in symbology. 1991 J. Michell & C. Rhone Twelve-tribe Nations vi. 87 The original circle..represents the natural, nomadic state of existence, when the dominant numerical symbol was the Septenary. †5. Music. The seven notes of a diatonic scale. In early use: a set of seven notes in a diatonic scale in a certain pitch range. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > system of sounds or intervals > [noun] > diatonic scale series octave1603 septenary1636 octachord1664 resolve1721 1636 C. Butler Princ. Musik i. ii. 9 Within dhe ordinari compas of humane voices..ar conteined..3 Septenariz of Musical Notes. 1654 J. Playford Breefe Introd. Skill Musick i. i. 2 By these three Septenaries are distinguished the severall tones or sounds, which the Scale is divided into. 1776 J. Hawkins Gen. Hist. Music II. ii. viii. 214 To shew the analogy between the seven planets and the chords included in the musical septenary. 1776 J. Hawkins Gen. Hist. Music IV. i. ix. 135 To produce the notes in the second septenary, and so upwards, a different method of stopping is required than for their [sc. flutes'] octaves below. 1875 J. Hullah Time & Tune App. p. xiv In the middle row of syllables is the unaltered diatonic septenary; in the upper is the same septenary altered by sharps. Compounds septenary number n. now rare. the number seven. [Compare classical Latin numerus septēnārius, Middle French, French nombre septénaire (1552).] ΚΠ c1484 (a1475) J. de Caritate tr. Secreta Secret. (Takamiya) (1977) 188 (MED) Þe circuit of þe mone goyth be seuyn..and many odyr longen to þe nombyr septenary [a1500 Lamb. of seuen] þat wer longe to reherse. a1500 (?c1425) Speculum Sacerdotale (1936) 158 (MED) The grace of whiche Holy Gost is seuenfold, þe whiche septenarye nombre the Jewis gretly kepeþ, and that noȝt with-oute fygowre. 1641 H. L'Estrange Gods Sabbath 29 This septenary number gained Authority from the creation of the world, because the first works of God were made in six dayes, and the seventh was dedicated to rest as sacred. 2010 L. López-Baralt in H. Kallendorf New Compan. Hispanic Mysticism ii. 190 For Saint Gregory the septenary number implied consummate perfection because it is composed of a first pair and of a first non-pair, and of a pair that can be divided and of the first non-pair that cannot be divided. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.c1484
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