seventhadj.adv.n.

Brit.

/ˈsɛvnθ/, U.S.

/ˈsɛvənθ/

Forms:

α. Old English seofeþa, Old English seofoþa, Old English seofoða, Old English seoueþa (rare), Old English siofoða, Old English sufoþa (rare), Old English syfeða (rare), Old English syfoða (rare), Old English–early Middle English seofeða, late Old English seofaðe, late Old English seoueðende, late Old English seueðe, late Old English syoueþa, late Old English–early Middle English (south-west midlands) seofoðe, early Middle English seofaþe, early Middle English seofeþe, early Middle English seofeðe, early Middle English seoueðe, early Middle English soueþe (south-western), Middle English sefeþe, Middle English sefth, Middle English sefþe, Middle English seueþ, Middle English seuethe, Middle English seueþe, Middle English seveth, Middle English seveþe, 1500s sevethe.

β. Old English seofonda (Northumbrian), Old English seofunda (Northumbrian), Old English seofunde (Northumbrian), Old English siofunda (Anglian), early Middle English sefennde ( Ormulum), early Middle English seffnde ( Ormulum), early Middle English seofende, early Middle English seoffnde ( Ormulum), early Middle English seofonde, Middle English sefend, Middle English seuend, Middle English seuende, Middle English seuened, Middle English seuenede, Middle English seuenyd, Middle English seuind, Middle English seuynd, Middle English seved (transmission error), Middle English sevend, Middle English sevinde, Middle English seyuend, Middle English seyuende, Middle English zeuende (south-eastern); Scottish pre-1700 sevind, pre-1700 sevynd, pre-1700 sewynd, pre-1700 sewynde.

γ. Middle English sefnthe, Middle English senthe (in a late copy), Middle English seouenþe (west midlands and south-western), Middle English seuenest (probably transmission error), Middle English seueneth, Middle English seueneþ, Middle English seuenethe, Middle English seueneþe, Middle English seuenȝt, Middle English seueniþ, Middle English seuenþ, Middle English seuenþe, Middle English seuenye, Middle English seuenyȝt, Middle English seuynthe, Middle English seuynþe, Middle English seveneth, Middle English sevenþe, Middle English sevenyth, Middle English–1500s seuinth, Middle English–1500s seuynth, Middle English–1600s seuenth, Middle English–1600s seuenthe, Middle English–1600s seventhe, Middle English– seventh, late Middle English (in a late copy)–1600s seaventh, 1500s sevoenthe, 1500s–1600s seauenth, 1600s sev'nth (poetic); Scottish pre-1700 seaventh, pre-1700 seuinth, pre-1700 sevinth, pre-1700 sev'nth (poetic), pre-1700 sewinth, pre-1700 1700s– seventh, 1700s seivnth, 1900s– seeventh, 1900s– seiventh.

δ. (chiefly northern, east midlands and East Anglian in Middle English) Middle English sefent, Middle English sefnte, Middle English sefynte, Middle English senft, Middle English senfte, Middle English seuenet, Middle English seuenete, Middle English seuennt, Middle English seuente, Middle English seuint, Middle English seuynt, Middle English seuynte, Middle English sevente, Middle English sevynt, Middle English sevynte, Middle English sewent, Middle English sewinte, Middle English sewnte, Middle English sewynt, Middle English sewynte, Middle English seyuent, Middle English–1600s seuent, Middle English–1600s sevent, late Middle English swente (perhaps transmission error), 1900s sevent' (English regional); Scottish pre-1700 seauent, pre-1700 seaveint, pre-1700 seavint, pre-1700 seevnit, pre-1700 seuint, pre-1700 seuinte, pre-1700 sevent, pre-1700 sevint, pre-1700 sevnt, pre-1700 sevynt, pre-1700 sewent, pre-1700 sewint, pre-1700 sewinte, pre-1700 sewynt, pre-1700 seyvint, pre-1700 1900s– seivint, 1900s saivent, 1900s seevent, 1900s– seyvent.

ε. Middle English sefte, Middle English seuet, Middle English seuete.

ζ. late Middle English sente; Scottish pre-1700 seint, pre-1700 seynt.

Also represented by the abbreviations 7th, 7^th, viith, vii^th, VIIth, VII^th, and variants.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a word inherited from Germanic. Partly formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: seven adj., -th suffix².

Etymology: Partly (i, in α. forms) cognate with Old Saxon sivōtho (Middle High German sevede ), apparently < a variant with shifted stress of the Germanic ordinal base at (ii) below. Compare α. forms at ninth adj., n., and adv. and β forms at tenth adj. Partly (ii, in β. forms) cognate with Old Frisian sigunda , siugunda , sogunda , sogenda , soginda (West Frisian sawnde , sānde , East Frisian (Saterland) soogende ), Old Dutch sivondo (Middle Dutch sevende , Dutch zevende ), Old Saxon sivondo (Middle Low German sevende , sovende ), Old High German sibunto (Middle High German sibente , sibende , German regional siebente , (now usually) siebte ), Old Icelandic sjaundi (Icelandic sjöundi ), Norwegian sjaunde , sjuande , Swedish sjunde , Old Danish siunde (Danish syvende ) < the Germanic base of seven adj. + the Germanic base of -th suffix²; compare similarly Sanskrit saptatha , Avestan haptaθa- , ancient Greek ἑβδόματος , Gaulish sextametos , Early Irish sechtmad , Welsh seithfed , Tocharian A ṣäptänt , Tocharian B ṣuktante , Lithuanian septintas , Albanian shtatë . Compare β. forms at ninth adj., n., and adv. and γ forms at tenth adj. Partly (iii, in γ. forms) < seven adj. + -th suffix². Compare γ. forms at ninth adj., n., and adv. and δ forms at tenth adj. and n.Notes on forms. The β. forms are attested in Anglian sources in Old English; in Middle English, they are chiefly attested in northern, east midland, and East Anglian dialects, and also in south-eastern sources. The δ. forms show the variant -t of the suffix -th suffix² characteristic of Scots; compare ε. forms at ninth adj., n., and adv. Notes on senses. With seventh part n. at Compounds compare earlier seventh deal n. in the same sense. In rare Old English use as adverb (introducing an item in an enumeration) in form seofoðe (see quot. lOE at sense B.) probably reflecting adverbial use of a case form (perhaps neuter accusative singular).

The ordinal numeral corresponding to the cardinal numeral seven. Also written 7th.

A. adj.

1. Next in order after the sixth; that is number seven in a series.

a. With noun expressed.

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α.

OE Blickling Homilies 47 Ærest on ærnemorgen.., syxtan siþe on niht ær he ræste, seofoþan siþe on uhtan.

c1225 (?c1200) St. Margaret (Bodl.) (1934) 18 Þe seoueðe time of þe dei.

?c1335 in W. Heuser Kildare-Gedichte (1904) 103 Þe sefþe dai hit sal grow aȝe.

β. OE (Northumbrian) Epist. Jerome to Damasus 3 In canone sexto duo.., in canone septimo duo : in regula ða scista twoege in tal ða seofunda twoege.c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 5598 Þe seoffnde ȝife godess gast her ȝifeþþ.a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 445 Lamech is at ðe sexte kne, Ðe seuende man after adam.1340 Ayenbite (1866) 3 Þe zeuende bene of þe holy pater noster.?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 73 Þis faire lady sall com to him at þe seuend day, or þe thridd day, end.γ. c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) l. 1815 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 158 Þe seuenþe ȝer þat he wende furst out of engelonde.a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. l. 1363 The sefnthe sterre in special Of this science is Arial.a1500 (a1400) Ipomedon (Chetham) (1889) l. 8803 The seventhe day they toke there leyve bedene, Bothe kyng and maye.1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 335 Many children borne the seuenth month suruiue and do well.?1734 Pract. Husbandman & Planter II. ii. 103 A 7th Species of Glandiferous Trees, and which bears an Acorn like the Oak, is the Suber, or Cork-Tree.1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1838) V. liii. 266 The seventh and eighth centuries were a period of discord and darkness.1878 H. Stevens Bibles Caxton Exhib. 114 [He] nick-named it ‘The Wicked Bible’, from the fact that the negative had been left out of the Seventh Commandment by a typographical error.1916 D. Haig Diary 15 July in War Diaries & Lett. 1914–18 (2005) 206 He told me that the 7th Dragoon Guards charged last night.1998 Eye for Future May 50/1 Remember when you were a kid, and on your seventh birthday, you got a Timex watch like the big kids?2016 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 7 Feb. (Sports section) 8/4 Folklore holds that the seventh son of a seventh son will be imbued with special, if undefined, mystical powers.δ. J. Gaytryge Lay Folks' Catech. (York Min.) (1901) l. 220 The seuent comandement biddes us noght stele; In whilk is forboden robbyng and reuyng.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 6844 vj. dayes sal ȝe wirke..and ȝe sal rest þe seyuent day.a1500 (?1382) J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 169 Þe sevent werke of mercy is seid in þe book of Thobie.a1525 Eng. Conquest Ireland (Trin. Dublin) (1896) 58 He arryued, the yer of hys kyngedome, senthe [a1500 Rawl. the Senfte].1577 in D. Balfour Oppress. 16th Cent. Orkney & Zetland (1859) 47 This Sewint Article.1644 A. Petrie Chiliasto-mastix 58 And if it be objected, It is no wher sayd so of Christ's reigne till this tyme of the sevent trumpet.1985 D. Purves Hou Finn Fand Bran (SCOTS) An the seivint man spak. ‘Ye wul need me tae.’ε. ?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 75 (MED) The sefte is vndowteful hope of immortalyte.a1500 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (Hunterian) (1976) i. 9 (MED) Why God bad þat þe seuete day schulde ben halwyd.ζ. c1475 in L. T. Smith Common-place Bk. 15th Cent. (1886) 74 The sente day schall [f]all down Chyrch, and castyll, and euery town.a1538 A. Abell Roit or Quheill of Tyme f. 1*, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Sevint The saxt place..the seynt place.

b. With ellipsis of the noun.

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OE Gloria I (Junius) 23 Þu gewrohtest, ece god, ealle gesceafta on syx dagum, and on þone seofoðan þu gerestest.

a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 43 Innan þan sea weren .vii. bittere uþe..þe seofeþe [wes] ful stunch.

c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xvii. l. 144 The syxte, hit is a paþ of pees... The seueþe, hit is a weelle [read welle] of wysedome.

c1450 (a1400) Chevalere Assigne l. 42 in W. H. French & C. B. Hale Middle Eng. Metrical Romances (1930) 861 Sex semelye sonnes and a dowȝter, þe seueneth.

a1500 Partenay (Trin. Cambr.) l. 4427 Thys Grymold is the fifte Geant found, The sixte, or the sefth of thaim hath be last.

1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius Cathechisme or Schort Instr. 183 The sext is bontie... The Sewent is gentilnes.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iv. i. 134 Another yet? A seauenth ?

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 700 Hee the seventh from thee, whom thou beheldst The onely righteous in a World perverse.

1710 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 31 Oct. (1948) I. 77 I have sent my seventh [letter] to your fourth, young women.

1888 Northampton Mercury 21 July 6/7 Lancashire won with 443 points, Warwick came seventh with 425.

1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 5 Feb. 18/3 Ballantyne was ahead 5–3 going into the sixth end, but Lawrie tied it up in the seventh.

1976 Wall St. Jrnl. 14 June 1/4 She is ranked seventh in the world in..the ‘metric mile’ or 1,500-meter run.

2014 Afr. Health Jan. 19/1 ‘Malaria surveillance, monitoring and evaluation’ is the seventh of eight chapters in the 2013 World Malaria Report.

2. With the: following the personal name of a monarch, pope, or other ruler, to designate the seventh person with that name to hold the position, as Henry the Seventh.

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c1475 (?c1451) Bk. Noblesse (Royal) (1860) 25 Of whiche duchie..your noble progenitours have continually be possessid and seased of..tille that by intrusion of youre said adversarie Charlis the vij^the of Fraunce have disseasid yow.

c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 22 Pape Gregore the sevynt.

a1550 Lynn Chron. in Six Town Chron. (1911) 186 Kyng henry the sevethe.

1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 11 Charles the seuenth reduced these ordinances to perfection, made the number certaine, appointed their wages.

1706 J. Evelyn Acct. Archit. (new ed.) 10 He has look'd a while upon King Henry the VIIth's Chappel at Westminster.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vi. §3. 295 The accession of Henry the Seventh ended the long bloodshed of the Civil Wars.

2001 T. Hill Love of Stones (2002) iv. 272 Victoria had got them from Pope Clement the Seventh, whose niece was Catherine of Medici.

B. adv.

Used to introduce the seventh item in a list or enumeration: seventhly.

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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > seven > [adverb] > seventhly

seventhlOE

seventhlya1500

lOE Laws of Æðelstan (Rochester) ii. xviii. 158 Seofoðe: þæt nan mon ne sylle nan hors ofer sæ, buton he hit gifan wille.

1576 G. Gascoigne Droomme of Doomes Day ii. sig. I.iiij^v Seuenth, he ought in all things to haue a moste sincere intention.

1840 Dom. Brewing 8 The following articles only are requisite... Seventh, a stirring stick.

2005 A. W. Gilg Planning in Brit. ii. 67 The first reason is that policies are subject to change... Seventh, and finally, policy makers can only ever expect to achieve a certain success rate.

C. n.

1. The seventh person, thing, or part of a category, series, etc., identified contextually; esp. the seventh day of the month, the seventh chapter of a book of the Bible (now rare), the seventh hole on a golf course, or the seventh inning in a baseball game.

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c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Ezek. xlv. 20 So thou shalt in the seuenthe of the monethe, for eche man that vnknewe, and by errour is disceyued.

1536 R. Taverner tr. P. Melanchthon Apol. sig. D.vi in Confessyon Fayth Germaynes It is a commune fourme of speakyng otherwhyles to comprise in one worde bothe the cause and the effect by a figure called Synecdoche, as in the seuenth of Luke Christ sayeth [etc.].

1598 J. Chamberlain Let. 22 Nov. (1939) I. 54 The seventh of this moneth.

1674 D. Brevint Saul & Samuel 298 The seventh of St. John's Revelation.

1728 Daily Jrnl 7 Oct. This present Monday, being the 7th of October, will be a complete Boxing Match between the two following Championesses.

1841 C. J. Lever Charles O'Malley II. cxvii. 283 He ordered me to picket two squadrons of the seventh.

1909 Washington Post 17 Sept. 1 In the seventh he stood up to stretch with the rest of the Chicago host.

1954 G. D. Read Childbirth without Fear (rev. ed.) i. 3 On April 7th, 1853, John Snow anæsthetized Queen Victoria when Prince Leopold was born.

2015 Metro 3 Aug. (London ed.) 47/1 Ko..extended her overnight lead after an eagle on the seventh and birdies on the eighth and tenth.

2. Each of seven equal parts into which something is or may be divided; a fraction which, when multiplied by seven, gives one.

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

seventh dealOE

seventh partc1300

seventh?1545

?1545 J. Bale 2nd Pt. Image Both Churches ii. sig. K.vi Yf the Nombre of one seuenth be an infinite Nombre there, moche more of many seuenthes.

1623 J. Johnson Arithmatick ii. 229 Because your fractions are seuenths, cut off 7 figures.

1762 R. Ramsbottom Fractions Anatomized 33 For if to 4 Sevenths We add 4 Eighths..it is neither 8 Sevenths nor 8 Eighths.

1844 R. Rouse Turf Betting 8 Different denominators, as fifths, sevenths, elevenths.

1897 A. Günther in M. H. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 711 Eye two-sevenths of the length of the head.

1922 J. J. Sudborough Bernthsen's Text-bk. Org. Chem. (new ed.) liv. 817 Novocaine..is..only about one-seventh as toxic as cocaine.

2008 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) Feb. 32/3 The most cataclysmic of the smashups will release about a seventh of the energy available in the parent protons.

3. Music. An interval spanning seven notes on the diatonic scale; a note six degrees of the scale above or below a given note; a chord containing a note six degrees above the root note, together with its third and fifth, or either one of these (also chord of the seventh, seventh chord).See also added seventh, diminished seventh, dominant seventh, leading seventh n., major seventh, minor seventh.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > interval > [noun] > seventh

seven1561

seventh1591

septime1725

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > chord > [noun] > other chords

seventh1591

fourth1597

sixth1597

fifth1631

tierce1696

septime1725

repercussion1728

octave1749

substitution1784

triad1786

German sixth1812

French sixth1813

nintha1830

Neapolitan sixth1871

six-four1873

Italian sixth1875

tetrad1881

added sixth1888

leading seventh1889

ninth chord1889

under-chord1890

diminished seventh1926

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

keya1450

seventh1591

fifth1597

final1609

octave1656

sub-octave1659

keynote1677

mediant1721

sensible note?1775

subdominant?1775

submediant?1775

medius1782

leading note1786

nominal1786

subsemitone1799

superdominant1806

supertonic1806

tonic1806

subtonic1817

dominant1823

sensitive note1845

nominal note1884

1591 J. Farmer Diuers Waies Playnsong sig. B.vi 2 parts in one in the seuenth, the Basse before, the Mean follow a sembreefe, the plainsong in the midst.

1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 71 Phi. Which distances make discord..? Ma...a second, a fourth, a seuenth.

1694 W. Holder Treat. Harmony vii. 169 These Discords, the Tritone, and Semidiapente; as also, the Seconds, and Sevenths, are of very great use in Music.

1730 Short Treat. Harmony iii. 15 The Seventh of the key.

1737 tr. J.-P. Rameau Treat. Music ix. 27 Let not the Difference between the perfect Chord, and that of the Seventh, puzzle you.

1797 Encycl. Brit. XII. 508/2 An interval consisting of four tones and two semitones, as from re to ut, is called a seventh minor.

1818 T. Busby Gram. Music 326 The chord of the Seventh is susceptible of three changes.

1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 297/1 The dominant 7th and the diminished 7th, or their inversions.

1918 C. E. Gardner Music Composition 49 The subtonic seventh chord is the mildest dissonant seventh chord of the major mode.

1920 P. C. Buck Unfigured Harmony (ed. 2) 12 Diminished sevenths are extremely useful, though more liable to be over-used than any other chord.

2014 J. Kovarsky Keyboard for Dummies iv. xiii. 230 This way, you make a three-note chord a four-note chord, adding a seventh or other fancier tone.

2015 Radio Times 20 June (South/West ed.) 12/1 The warm melancholy of those jazzy minor sevenths that run through some of the greatest pop songs ever recorded.

Phrases

† colloquial. to commit the seventh: to break the seventh commandment, to commit adultery. Obsolete.

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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > fornication, adultery, or incest > commit fornication, adultery, or incest [verb (intransitive)] > commit adultery

to break (one's) wedlocka1100

to break spousehoodc1175

to break (also spill) (one's) spousal1340

adultera1382

to overgo one's beda1382

vowtrec1475

to break matrimony1530

to break wedlock1530

adulterize1611

adulterate1613

to commit the seventh1874

to play away1987

1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd viii, in Cornhill Mag. Feb. 146 As soon as he could..fancy he was doing wrong and committing the seventh.

1886 Sporting Times 27 Mar. 4/3 If everybody is to be pilloried for committing the Seventh, life would be unbearable.

Compounds

seventh art n. (chiefly with the) cinema considered as an artistic discipline. [After Italian settima arte (1921), a term coined by the Italian film theorist Ricciotto Canudo (1877–1923), who described cinema as a synthesis of the six arts of architecture, sculpture, painting, music, poetry, and dance.]

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > [noun] > films or the cinema

cinematograph1896

animation1897

cinema1908

movies1909

movie screen1912

pic1913

big screen1914

film1915

motion pictures1915

picture1915

screen1915

seventh art1921

celluloid1922

silver screen1924

flick1926

flickers1927

pix1932

1921 Motion Picture Studio 19 Nov. 1 The original scenes of the vital drama will be given to the world through the medium of the seventh art.

1992 Independent 16 Nov. 14/1 The world's film critics have decreed that Citizen Kane is the greatest single product of the seventh art.

2014 Waikato Times (Hamilton, N.Z.) (Nexis) 22 Feb. 5 With unemployment and poverty rife and the movies then costing relatively little to attend, the seventh art offered much solace.

seventh nerve n. Anatomy the facial nerve, which is the seventh of the twelve cranial nerves and innervates the muscles of facial expression.In early use the seventh nerve was considered to have an auditory, or partly auditory, function. [After scientific Latin nervus septimus (1778 or earlier).]

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1785 A. Monro Struct. & Physiol. Fishes Explan. Tables 118 A nerve which resembles our seventh nerve, and likewise in a great measure supplies the place of our eighth.

1824 C. Bell Expos. Nat. Syst. Nerves 133 Although the fifth nerve was free, the pressure on the seventh nerve was sufficient to paralyze the muscles of the side of the face.

1892 St. Louis Courier Med. 7 90 Paralysis of one lateral..half of the palate is of very frequent occurrence in Bell's palsy (paralysis of the facial, or seventh, nerve).

1969 Marshall (Michigan) Evening Chron. 9 Sept. 2/1 It is suspected that a virus infection..or exposure to cold winds may cause these changes in the seventh nerve.

2002 A. Scheiber Human Computer xxiv. 201 Nerve fibers transmit the motor signals along the seventh nerve to the mouth, tongue, and vocal cords.

seventh part n. now somewhat rare each of seven equal parts into which something is or may be divided; a seventh.

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

seventh dealOE

seventh partc1300

seventh?1545

c1300 St. Michael (Laud) l. 665 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 318 Þe seuenþe part.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 45 Þe seuenþe parte of þe þridde.

c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 2157 Þai pleyne more þe pouirte & þe pite of þar horsis Þan þe soroȝe of þam-selfe by þe seuynt parte [a1500 Trin. Dublin seuent dele].

1751 C. Pollock Will in J. B. Grimes N. Carolina Wills & Inventories (1912) 337 It is my Will that the Legacy hereby given to them goe to my Children to be devided as followeth: yt is to say, two seventh parts to my Son George, Two Seventh parts to my son Cullen, one Seventh part to my Daughter Martha, [etc.].

1885 F. H. Bowman Struct. Wool Fibre Gloss. Lea, the seventh part of a hank; in worsted 80 yards; in cotton and silk 120 yards.

1993 Educ. Stud. Math. 25 290 A/7 can be referred to, for example, as ‘one-seventh of A’, ‘a seventh part of A’, ‘A divided by 7’, and so forth.

seventh seal n. Originally: (with reference to Revelation 8.1) the last of the seven seals (cf. seven seals n. at seven adj. and n. Compounds 4) securing the divine scroll or book whose opening precipitates the apocalyptic events that precede the Second Coming of Christ. Also in extended use: a notional seal, the opening of which releases destructive forces or indicates the occurrence of something deeply shocking; frequently humorous.

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c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) (1850) Apoc. viii. 1 And whan he hadde openid the seuenthe seel, silence is maad in heuen, as half an hour.

?1545 J. Bale 2nd Pt. Image Both Churches xii. sig. C.viii^v Herin maye we coniecture, that the seuenth seale ones opened, and the .vij. trompet blowne, the last iudgement daye is not farre of.

1836 Herald (N.Y.) 3 Feb. Many of them have become politicians.., a race of locusts worse than the ten plagues of Egypt, being in fact on earth, the opening of the seventh seal, and the pouring out of the tenth vial of wrath.

2010 @MarkWSchumann 24 May in twitter.com (accessed 13 Jan. 2020) Dude, we're agreeing on something. The seventh seal has just been broken.

seventh wave n. the wave traditionally thought to be the biggest in an increasing swell of the sea; (hence) figurative an event or experience which is more intense than or a culmination of what has come before. [Compare earlier tenth wave n., and also decuman adj.]

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the world > action or operation > completing > [noun] > that which > a culminating act or experience

seventh wave1759

the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > types of waves > [noun] > unusually large

sea1582

tenth wave1585

sea-mountain1694

mountain wave1696

seventh wave1759

death wave1832

fluctuosity1850

Spanish wave1852

ranger1891

1759 Philos. Trans. 1758 (Royal Soc.) 50 lxxxix. 646 I further observed, that this phænomenon never happens till after the seventh wave rolls in; for it is a common thing in this country to find the sea appear calm for some time, and then to produce seven waves.

1891 R. Kipling City Dreadful Night i. 3 Six moderately pure mouthfuls of [Calcutta] air may be drawn without offence. Then comes the seventh wave and the queaziness of an uncultured stomach.

1908 G. Meredith Let. 24 Jan. (1970) III. 1623 You know the seventh wave. There must be a gathering of the waters before a big surge is thrown on shore.

1976 E. Ward Hanged Man i. 3 A seventh wave pulled him backwards into undertow.

1985 ‘Sting’ Love is the Seventh Wave (transcribed from song) I say love is the seventh wave.

2019 Irish Daily Mail (Nexis) 30 Aug. Feelings of mourning and loss can still knock me over, like every seventh wave among incoming breakers, but now I just ride them a little better and a little longer.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	seventh
释义	seventhadj.adv.n. Brit. /ˈsɛvnθ/, U.S. /ˈsɛvənθ/ Forms: α. Old English seofeþa, Old English seofoþa, Old English seofoða, Old English seoueþa (rare), Old English siofoða, Old English sufoþa (rare), Old English syfeða (rare), Old English syfoða (rare), Old English–early Middle English seofeða, late Old English seofaðe, late Old English seoueðende, late Old English seueðe, late Old English syoueþa, late Old English–early Middle English (south-west midlands) seofoðe, early Middle English seofaþe, early Middle English seofeþe, early Middle English seofeðe, early Middle English seoueðe, early Middle English soueþe (south-western), Middle English sefeþe, Middle English sefth, Middle English sefþe, Middle English seueþ, Middle English seuethe, Middle English seueþe, Middle English seveth, Middle English seveþe, 1500s sevethe. β. Old English seofonda (Northumbrian), Old English seofunda (Northumbrian), Old English seofunde (Northumbrian), Old English siofunda (Anglian), early Middle English sefennde ( Ormulum), early Middle English seffnde ( Ormulum), early Middle English seofende, early Middle English seoffnde ( Ormulum), early Middle English seofonde, Middle English sefend, Middle English seuend, Middle English seuende, Middle English seuened, Middle English seuenede, Middle English seuenyd, Middle English seuind, Middle English seuynd, Middle English seved (transmission error), Middle English sevend, Middle English sevinde, Middle English seyuend, Middle English seyuende, Middle English zeuende (south-eastern); Scottish pre-1700 sevind, pre-1700 sevynd, pre-1700 sewynd, pre-1700 sewynde. γ. Middle English sefnthe, Middle English senthe (in a late copy), Middle English seouenþe (west midlands and south-western), Middle English seuenest (probably transmission error), Middle English seueneth, Middle English seueneþ, Middle English seuenethe, Middle English seueneþe, Middle English seuenȝt, Middle English seueniþ, Middle English seuenþ, Middle English seuenþe, Middle English seuenye, Middle English seuenyȝt, Middle English seuynthe, Middle English seuynþe, Middle English seveneth, Middle English sevenþe, Middle English sevenyth, Middle English–1500s seuinth, Middle English–1500s seuynth, Middle English–1600s seuenth, Middle English–1600s seuenthe, Middle English–1600s seventhe, Middle English– seventh, late Middle English (in a late copy)–1600s seaventh, 1500s sevoenthe, 1500s–1600s seauenth, 1600s sev'nth (poetic); Scottish pre-1700 seaventh, pre-1700 seuinth, pre-1700 sevinth, pre-1700 sev'nth (poetic), pre-1700 sewinth, pre-1700 1700s– seventh, 1700s seivnth, 1900s– seeventh, 1900s– seiventh. δ. (chiefly northern, east midlands and East Anglian in Middle English) Middle English sefent, Middle English sefnte, Middle English sefynte, Middle English senft, Middle English senfte, Middle English seuenet, Middle English seuenete, Middle English seuennt, Middle English seuente, Middle English seuint, Middle English seuynt, Middle English seuynte, Middle English sevente, Middle English sevynt, Middle English sevynte, Middle English sewent, Middle English sewinte, Middle English sewnte, Middle English sewynt, Middle English sewynte, Middle English seyuent, Middle English–1600s seuent, Middle English–1600s sevent, late Middle English swente (perhaps transmission error), 1900s sevent' (English regional); Scottish pre-1700 seauent, pre-1700 seaveint, pre-1700 seavint, pre-1700 seevnit, pre-1700 seuint, pre-1700 seuinte, pre-1700 sevent, pre-1700 sevint, pre-1700 sevnt, pre-1700 sevynt, pre-1700 sewent, pre-1700 sewint, pre-1700 sewinte, pre-1700 sewynt, pre-1700 seyvint, pre-1700 1900s– seivint, 1900s saivent, 1900s seevent, 1900s– seyvent. ε. Middle English sefte, Middle English seuet, Middle English seuete. ζ. late Middle English sente; Scottish pre-1700 seint, pre-1700 seynt. Also represented by the abbreviations 7th, 7^th, viith, vii^th, VIIth, VII^th, and variants. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a word inherited from Germanic. Partly formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: seven adj., -th suffix². Etymology: Partly (i, in α. forms) cognate with Old Saxon sivōtho (Middle High German sevede ), apparently < a variant with shifted stress of the Germanic ordinal base at (ii) below. Compare α. forms at ninth adj., n., and adv. and β forms at tenth adj. Partly (ii, in β. forms) cognate with Old Frisian sigunda , siugunda , sogunda , sogenda , soginda (West Frisian sawnde , sānde , East Frisian (Saterland) soogende ), Old Dutch sivondo (Middle Dutch sevende , Dutch zevende ), Old Saxon sivondo (Middle Low German sevende , sovende ), Old High German sibunto (Middle High German sibente , sibende , German regional siebente , (now usually) siebte ), Old Icelandic sjaundi (Icelandic sjöundi ), Norwegian sjaunde , sjuande , Swedish sjunde , Old Danish siunde (Danish syvende ) < the Germanic base of seven adj. + the Germanic base of -th suffix²; compare similarly Sanskrit saptatha , Avestan haptaθa- , ancient Greek ἑβδόματος , Gaulish sextametos , Early Irish sechtmad , Welsh seithfed , Tocharian A ṣäptänt , Tocharian B ṣuktante , Lithuanian septintas , Albanian shtatë . Compare β. forms at ninth adj., n., and adv. and γ forms at tenth adj. Partly (iii, in γ. forms) < seven adj. + -th suffix². Compare γ. forms at ninth adj., n., and adv. and δ forms at tenth adj. and n.Notes on forms. The β. forms are attested in Anglian sources in Old English; in Middle English, they are chiefly attested in northern, east midland, and East Anglian dialects, and also in south-eastern sources. The δ. forms show the variant -t of the suffix -th suffix² characteristic of Scots; compare ε. forms at ninth adj., n., and adv. Notes on senses. With seventh part n. at Compounds compare earlier seventh deal n. in the same sense. In rare Old English use as adverb (introducing an item in an enumeration) in form seofoðe (see quot. lOE at sense B.) probably reflecting adverbial use of a case form (perhaps neuter accusative singular). The ordinal numeral corresponding to the cardinal numeral seven. Also written 7th. A. adj. 1. Next in order after the sixth; that is number seven in a series. a. With noun expressed. ΚΠ α. OE Blickling Homilies 47 Ærest on ærnemorgen.., syxtan siþe on niht ær he ræste, seofoþan siþe on uhtan. c1225 (?c1200) St. Margaret (Bodl.) (1934) 18 Þe seoueðe time of þe dei. ?c1335 in W. Heuser Kildare-Gedichte (1904) 103 Þe sefþe dai hit sal grow aȝe. β. OE (Northumbrian) Epist. Jerome to Damasus 3 In canone sexto duo.., in canone septimo duo : in regula ða scista twoege in tal ða seofunda twoege.c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 5598 Þe seoffnde ȝife godess gast her ȝifeþþ.a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 445 Lamech is at ðe sexte kne, Ðe seuende man after adam.1340 Ayenbite (1866) 3 Þe zeuende bene of þe holy pater noster.?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 73 Þis faire lady sall com to him at þe seuend day, or þe thridd day, end.γ. c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) l. 1815 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 158 Þe seuenþe ȝer þat he wende furst out of engelonde.a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. l. 1363 The sefnthe sterre in special Of this science is Arial.a1500 (a1400) Ipomedon (Chetham) (1889) l. 8803 The seventhe day they toke there leyve bedene, Bothe kyng and maye.1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 335 Many children borne the seuenth month suruiue and do well.?1734 Pract. Husbandman & Planter II. ii. 103 A 7th Species of Glandiferous Trees, and which bears an Acorn like the Oak, is the Suber, or Cork-Tree.1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1838) V. liii. 266 The seventh and eighth centuries were a period of discord and darkness.1878 H. Stevens Bibles Caxton Exhib. 114 [He] nick-named it ‘The Wicked Bible’, from the fact that the negative had been left out of the Seventh Commandment by a typographical error.1916 D. Haig Diary 15 July in War Diaries & Lett. 1914–18 (2005) 206 He told me that the 7th Dragoon Guards charged last night.1998 Eye for Future May 50/1 Remember when you were a kid, and on your seventh birthday, you got a Timex watch like the big kids?2016 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 7 Feb. (Sports section) 8/4 Folklore holds that the seventh son of a seventh son will be imbued with special, if undefined, mystical powers.δ. J. Gaytryge Lay Folks' Catech. (York Min.) (1901) l. 220 The seuent comandement biddes us noght stele; In whilk is forboden robbyng and reuyng.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 6844 vj. dayes sal ȝe wirke..and ȝe sal rest þe seyuent day.a1500 (?1382) J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 169 Þe sevent werke of mercy is seid in þe book of Thobie.a1525 Eng. Conquest Ireland (Trin. Dublin) (1896) 58 He arryued, the yer of hys kyngedome, senthe [a1500 Rawl. the Senfte].1577 in D. Balfour Oppress. 16th Cent. Orkney & Zetland (1859) 47 This Sewint Article.1644 A. Petrie Chiliasto-mastix 58 And if it be objected, It is no wher sayd so of Christ's reigne till this tyme of the sevent trumpet.1985 D. Purves Hou Finn Fand Bran (SCOTS) An the seivint man spak. ‘Ye wul need me tae.’ε. ?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 75 (MED) The sefte is vndowteful hope of immortalyte.a1500 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (Hunterian) (1976) i. 9 (MED) Why God bad þat þe seuete day schulde ben halwyd.ζ. c1475 in L. T. Smith Common-place Bk. 15th Cent. (1886) 74 The sente day schall [f]all down Chyrch, and castyll, and euery town.a1538 A. Abell Roit or Quheill of Tyme f. 1, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue* at Sevint The saxt place..the seynt place. b. With ellipsis of the noun. ΚΠ OE Gloria I (Junius) 23 Þu gewrohtest, ece god, ealle gesceafta on syx dagum, and on þone seofoðan þu gerestest. a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 43 Innan þan sea weren .vii. bittere uþe..þe seofeþe [wes] ful stunch. c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xvii. l. 144 The syxte, hit is a paþ of pees... The seueþe, hit is a weelle [read welle] of wysedome. c1450 (a1400) Chevalere Assigne l. 42 in W. H. French & C. B. Hale Middle Eng. Metrical Romances (1930) 861 Sex semelye sonnes and a dowȝter, þe seueneth. a1500 Partenay (Trin. Cambr.) l. 4427 Thys Grymold is the fifte Geant found, The sixte, or the sefth of thaim hath be last. 1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius Cathechisme or Schort Instr. 183 The sext is bontie... The Sewent is gentilnes. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iv. i. 134 Another yet? A seauenth ? View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 700 Hee the seventh from thee, whom thou beheldst The onely righteous in a World perverse. View more context for this quotation 1710 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 31 Oct. (1948) I. 77 I have sent my seventh [letter] to your fourth, young women. 1888 Northampton Mercury 21 July 6/7 Lancashire won with 443 points, Warwick came seventh with 425. 1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 5 Feb. 18/3 Ballantyne was ahead 5–3 going into the sixth end, but Lawrie tied it up in the seventh. 1976 Wall St. Jrnl. 14 June 1/4 She is ranked seventh in the world in..the ‘metric mile’ or 1,500-meter run. 2014 Afr. Health Jan. 19/1 ‘Malaria surveillance, monitoring and evaluation’ is the seventh of eight chapters in the 2013 World Malaria Report. 2. With the: following the personal name of a monarch, pope, or other ruler, to designate the seventh person with that name to hold the position, as Henry the Seventh. ΚΠ c1475 (?c1451) Bk. Noblesse (Royal) (1860) 25 Of whiche duchie..your noble progenitours have continually be possessid and seased of..tille that by intrusion of youre said adversarie Charlis the vij^the of Fraunce have disseasid yow. c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 22 Pape Gregore the sevynt. a1550 Lynn Chron. in Six Town Chron. (1911) 186 Kyng henry the sevethe. 1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 11 Charles the seuenth reduced these ordinances to perfection, made the number certaine, appointed their wages. 1706 J. Evelyn Acct. Archit. (new ed.) 10 He has look'd a while upon King Henry the VIIth's Chappel at Westminster. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vi. §3. 295 The accession of Henry the Seventh ended the long bloodshed of the Civil Wars. 2001 T. Hill Love of Stones (2002) iv. 272 Victoria had got them from Pope Clement the Seventh, whose niece was Catherine of Medici. B. adv. Used to introduce the seventh item in a list or enumeration: seventhly. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > seven > [adverb] > seventhly seventhlOE seventhlya1500 lOE Laws of Æðelstan (Rochester) ii. xviii. 158 Seofoðe: þæt nan mon ne sylle nan hors ofer sæ, buton he hit gifan wille. 1576 G. Gascoigne Droomme of Doomes Day ii. sig. I.iiij^v Seuenth, he ought in all things to haue a moste sincere intention. 1840 Dom. Brewing 8 The following articles only are requisite... Seventh, a stirring stick. 2005 A. W. Gilg Planning in Brit. ii. 67 The first reason is that policies are subject to change... Seventh, and finally, policy makers can only ever expect to achieve a certain success rate. C. n. 1. The seventh person, thing, or part of a category, series, etc., identified contextually; esp. the seventh day of the month, the seventh chapter of a book of the Bible (now rare), the seventh hole on a golf course, or the seventh inning in a baseball game. ΚΠ c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Ezek. xlv. 20 So thou shalt in the seuenthe of the monethe, for eche man that vnknewe, and by errour is disceyued. 1536 R. Taverner tr. P. Melanchthon Apol. sig. D.vi in Confessyon Fayth Germaynes It is a commune fourme of speakyng otherwhyles to comprise in one worde bothe the cause and the effect by a figure called Synecdoche, as in the seuenth of Luke Christ sayeth [etc.]. 1598 J. Chamberlain Let. 22 Nov. (1939) I. 54 The seventh of this moneth. 1674 D. Brevint Saul & Samuel 298 The seventh of St. John's Revelation. 1728 Daily Jrnl 7 Oct. This present Monday, being the 7th of October, will be a complete Boxing Match between the two following Championesses. 1841 C. J. Lever Charles O'Malley II. cxvii. 283 He ordered me to picket two squadrons of the seventh. 1909 Washington Post 17 Sept. 1 In the seventh he stood up to stretch with the rest of the Chicago host. 1954 G. D. Read Childbirth without Fear (rev. ed.) i. 3 On April 7th, 1853, John Snow anæsthetized Queen Victoria when Prince Leopold was born. 2015 Metro 3 Aug. (London ed.) 47/1 Ko..extended her overnight lead after an eagle on the seventh and birdies on the eighth and tenth. 2. Each of seven equal parts into which something is or may be divided; a fraction which, when multiplied by seven, gives one. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > seven > [noun] > a seventh seventh dealOE seventh partc1300 seventh?1545 ?1545 J. Bale 2nd Pt. Image Both Churches ii. sig. K.vi Yf the Nombre of one seuenth be an infinite Nombre there, moche more of many seuenthes. 1623 J. Johnson Arithmatick ii. 229 Because your fractions are seuenths, cut off 7 figures. 1762 R. Ramsbottom Fractions Anatomized 33 For if to 4 Sevenths We add 4 Eighths..it is neither 8 Sevenths nor 8 Eighths. 1844 R. Rouse Turf Betting 8 Different denominators, as fifths, sevenths, elevenths. 1897 A. Günther in M. H. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 711 Eye two-sevenths of the length of the head. 1922 J. J. Sudborough Bernthsen's Text-bk. Org. Chem. (new ed.) liv. 817 Novocaine..is..only about one-seventh as toxic as cocaine. 2008 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) Feb. 32/3 The most cataclysmic of the smashups will release about a seventh of the energy available in the parent protons. 3. Music. An interval spanning seven notes on the diatonic scale; a note six degrees of the scale above or below a given note; a chord containing a note six degrees above the root note, together with its third and fifth, or either one of these (also chord of the seventh, seventh chord).See also added seventh, diminished seventh, dominant seventh, leading seventh n., major seventh, minor seventh. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > interval > [noun] > seventh seven1561 seventh1591 septime1725 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > chord > [noun] > other chords seventh1591 fourth1597 sixth1597 fifth1631 tierce1696 septime1725 repercussion1728 octave1749 substitution1784 triad1786 German sixth1812 French sixth1813 nintha1830 Neapolitan sixth1871 six-four1873 Italian sixth1875 tetrad1881 added sixth1888 leading seventh1889 ninth chord1889 under-chord1890 diminished seventh1926 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > system of sounds or intervals > [noun] > diatonic scale series > notes in diatonic scale keya1450 seventh1591 fifth1597 final1609 octave1656 sub-octave1659 keynote1677 mediant1721 sensible note?1775 subdominant?1775 submediant?1775 medius1782 leading note1786 nominal1786 subsemitone1799 superdominant1806 supertonic1806 tonic1806 subtonic1817 dominant1823 sensitive note1845 nominal note1884 1591 J. Farmer Diuers Waies Playnsong sig. B.vi 2 parts in one in the seuenth, the Basse before, the Mean follow a sembreefe, the plainsong in the midst. 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 71 Phi. Which distances make discord..? Ma...a second, a fourth, a seuenth. 1694 W. Holder Treat. Harmony vii. 169 These Discords, the Tritone, and Semidiapente; as also, the Seconds, and Sevenths, are of very great use in Music. 1730 Short Treat. Harmony iii. 15 The Seventh of the key. 1737 tr. J.-P. Rameau Treat. Music ix. 27 Let not the Difference between the perfect Chord, and that of the Seventh, puzzle you. 1797 Encycl. Brit. XII. 508/2 An interval consisting of four tones and two semitones, as from re to ut, is called a seventh minor. 1818 T. Busby Gram. Music 326 The chord of the Seventh is susceptible of three changes. 1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 297/1 The dominant 7th and the diminished 7th, or their inversions. 1918 C. E. Gardner Music Composition 49 The subtonic seventh chord is the mildest dissonant seventh chord of the major mode. 1920 P. C. Buck Unfigured Harmony (ed. 2) 12 Diminished sevenths are extremely useful, though more liable to be over-used than any other chord. 2014 J. Kovarsky Keyboard for Dummies iv. xiii. 230 This way, you make a three-note chord a four-note chord, adding a seventh or other fancier tone. 2015 Radio Times 20 June (South/West ed.) 12/1 The warm melancholy of those jazzy minor sevenths that run through some of the greatest pop songs ever recorded. Phrases † colloquial. to commit the seventh: to break the seventh commandment, to commit adultery. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > fornication, adultery, or incest > commit fornication, adultery, or incest [verb (intransitive)] > commit adultery to break (one's) wedlocka1100 to break spousehoodc1175 to break (also spill) (one's) spousal1340 adultera1382 to overgo one's beda1382 vowtrec1475 to break matrimony1530 to break wedlock1530 adulterize1611 adulterate1613 to commit the seventh1874 to play away1987 1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd viii, in Cornhill Mag. Feb. 146 As soon as he could..fancy he was doing wrong and committing the seventh. 1886 Sporting Times 27 Mar. 4/3 If everybody is to be pilloried for committing the Seventh, life would be unbearable. Compounds seventh art n. (chiefly with the) cinema considered as an artistic discipline. [After Italian settima arte (1921), a term coined by the Italian film theorist Ricciotto Canudo (1877–1923), who described cinema as a synthesis of the six arts of architecture, sculpture, painting, music, poetry, and dance.] ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > [noun] > films or the cinema cinematograph1896 animation1897 cinema1908 movies1909 movie screen1912 pic1913 big screen1914 film1915 motion pictures1915 picture1915 screen1915 seventh art1921 celluloid1922 silver screen1924 flick1926 flickers1927 pix1932 1921 Motion Picture Studio 19 Nov. 1 The original scenes of the vital drama will be given to the world through the medium of the seventh art. 1992 Independent 16 Nov. 14/1 The world's film critics have decreed that Citizen Kane is the greatest single product of the seventh art. 2014 Waikato Times (Hamilton, N.Z.) (Nexis) 22 Feb. 5 With unemployment and poverty rife and the movies then costing relatively little to attend, the seventh art offered much solace. seventh nerve n. Anatomy the facial nerve, which is the seventh of the twelve cranial nerves and innervates the muscles of facial expression.In early use the seventh nerve was considered to have an auditory, or partly auditory, function. [After scientific Latin nervus septimus (1778 or earlier).] ΚΠ 1785 A. Monro Struct. & Physiol. Fishes Explan. Tables 118 A nerve which resembles our seventh nerve, and likewise in a great measure supplies the place of our eighth. 1824 C. Bell Expos. Nat. Syst. Nerves 133 Although the fifth nerve was free, the pressure on the seventh nerve was sufficient to paralyze the muscles of the side of the face. 1892 St. Louis Courier Med. 7 90 Paralysis of one lateral..half of the palate is of very frequent occurrence in Bell's palsy (paralysis of the facial, or seventh, nerve). 1969 Marshall (Michigan) Evening Chron. 9 Sept. 2/1 It is suspected that a virus infection..or exposure to cold winds may cause these changes in the seventh nerve. 2002 A. Scheiber Human Computer xxiv. 201 Nerve fibers transmit the motor signals along the seventh nerve to the mouth, tongue, and vocal cords. seventh part n. now somewhat rare each of seven equal parts into which something is or may be divided; a seventh. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > seven > [noun] > a seventh seventh dealOE seventh partc1300 seventh?1545 c1300 St. Michael (Laud) l. 665 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 318 Þe seuenþe part. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 45 Þe seuenþe parte of þe þridde. c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 2157 Þai pleyne more þe pouirte & þe pite of þar horsis Þan þe soroȝe of þam-selfe by þe seuynt parte [a1500 Trin. Dublin seuent dele]. 1751 C. Pollock Will in J. B. Grimes N. Carolina Wills & Inventories (1912) 337 It is my Will that the Legacy hereby given to them goe to my Children to be devided as followeth: yt is to say, two seventh parts to my Son George, Two Seventh parts to my son Cullen, one Seventh part to my Daughter Martha, [etc.]. 1885 F. H. Bowman Struct. Wool Fibre Gloss. Lea, the seventh part of a hank; in worsted 80 yards; in cotton and silk 120 yards. 1993 Educ. Stud. Math. 25 290 A/7 can be referred to, for example, as ‘one-seventh of A’, ‘a seventh part of A’, ‘A divided by 7’, and so forth. seventh seal n. Originally: (with reference to Revelation 8.1) the last of the seven seals (cf. seven seals n. at seven adj. and n. Compounds 4) securing the divine scroll or book whose opening precipitates the apocalyptic events that precede the Second Coming of Christ. Also in extended use: a notional seal, the opening of which releases destructive forces or indicates the occurrence of something deeply shocking; frequently humorous. ΚΠ c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) (1850) Apoc. viii. 1 And whan he hadde openid the seuenthe seel, silence is maad in heuen, as half an hour. ?1545 J. Bale 2nd Pt. Image Both Churches xii. sig. C.viii^v Herin maye we coniecture, that the seuenth seale ones opened, and the .vij. trompet blowne, the last iudgement daye is not farre of. 1836 Herald (N.Y.) 3 Feb. Many of them have become politicians.., a race of locusts worse than the ten plagues of Egypt, being in fact on earth, the opening of the seventh seal, and the pouring out of the tenth vial of wrath. 2010 @MarkWSchumann 24 May in twitter.com (accessed 13 Jan. 2020) Dude, we're agreeing on something. The seventh seal has just been broken. seventh wave n. the wave traditionally thought to be the biggest in an increasing swell of the sea; (hence) figurative an event or experience which is more intense than or a culmination of what has come before. [Compare earlier tenth wave n., and also decuman adj.] ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > completing > [noun] > that which > a culminating act or experience seventh wave1759 the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > types of waves > [noun] > unusually large sea1582 tenth wave1585 sea-mountain1694 mountain wave1696 seventh wave1759 death wave1832 fluctuosity1850 Spanish wave1852 ranger1891 1759 Philos. Trans. 1758 (Royal Soc.) 50 lxxxix. 646 I further observed, that this phænomenon never happens till after the seventh wave rolls in; for it is a common thing in this country to find the sea appear calm for some time, and then to produce seven waves. 1891 R. Kipling City Dreadful Night i. 3 Six moderately pure mouthfuls of [Calcutta] air may be drawn without offence. Then comes the seventh wave and the queaziness of an uncultured stomach. 1908 G. Meredith Let. 24 Jan. (1970) III. 1623 You know the seventh wave. There must be a gathering of the waters before a big surge is thrown on shore. 1976 E. Ward Hanged Man i. 3 A seventh wave pulled him backwards into undertow. 1985 ‘Sting’ Love is the Seventh Wave (transcribed from song) I say love is the seventh wave. 2019 Irish Daily Mail (Nexis) 30 Aug. Feelings of mourning and loss can still knock me over, like every seventh wave among incoming breakers, but now I just ride them a little better and a little longer. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.adv.n.OE
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