In the Season 7 premiere, Cersei, fresh off an explosion of the sept that would make the Mad King proud, employed some rhetoric that was very reminiscent of one of the more traumatic moments of Jaime’s life: the death of the Mad King Aerys. Joanna Robinson, vanityfair.com, 30 July 2017
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Etymology
Noun
perhaps from Latin septum, saeptum enclosure, fold — more at septum