c1429 Mirour Mans Saluacioune (1986) l. 5294 Spirit septiforme was sent.

1542 R. Taverner Epist. & Gospelles (new ed.) f. lxxii. By the .vii. lampes of fyre brennyng before the trone I vnderstande the septiforme spirite of God.

1728 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 4) Septiform, that has seven Shapes.

1849 K. H. Digby Compitum II. 310 That they may acquire the septiform grace, to the exclusion of the seven sins.

1869 W. E. Gladstone Juventus Mundi xv. 532 The septiform system was apparently represented in the seven gates of Thebes.

1878 H. G. Guinness Approaching End of Age (1880) Pref. p. viii The epacts of the prophetic periods of Scripture form a remarkable septiform series.

1979 Speculum 54 673 Very quickly this notion that the Church's hierarchy is septiform was connected with other theological sevens in Hibernian texts.

1993 J. V. Fleming in B. Cassidy Iconography at Crossroads 211 The Marian interpretation of Zechariah's prophecy [i.e. Zech. iv. 2]..influenced the visual representations of the text; and in the late fifteenth century a common family of septiform ecclesiastical chandeliers gave the idea plastic form.

1815 Medico-chirurg. Trans. 6 646 The artery was traversed by a septiform layer, and filled by a soft bed of lymph mixed with blood.

1875 T. H. Huxley in Encycl. Brit. I. 131/1 A tendency to the development of septiform prominence is visible in the walls of the gastric passages of certain calcareous sponges.

1993 K. Kubitski et al. Families & Genera Vascular Plants II. 409/1 Syrrheonema Miers... Drupes globose, endocarp crustaceous, rugose, condyle septiform, endosperm absent.