Definitions for septenary

septenary sep·te·nar·y

Spelling: [sep-tuh-ner-ee]
IPA: /ˈsɛp təˌnɛr i/

Septenary is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 634 anagrams from letters in septenary (aeenprsty).

Definitions for septenary

noun

  1. a group or set of seven.
  2. a period of seven years.
  3. the number seven.
  4. Prosody. a line of seven feet.

adjective

  1. of or relating to the number seven or forming a group of seven.
  2. septennial.

Origin of septenary

1570-80; Latin septēnārius, equivalent to septēn(ī) seven each (sept(em) seven + -ēnī distributive suffix) + -ārius -ary

Examples for septenary

In this specimen we have the septenary without rime, a rare form.

It is a vast commentary on the second septenary of the Trumps Major.

Chapman, in his translation of Homer, often uses it in septenary verses as well as in five-foot iambic verses.

In Modern English stanzas of this kind, consisting of septenary verses, are of rare occurrence.

In either arrangement the relationship of the metre to the septenary verse comes clearly out.

In Modern English the septenary has been extensively used, both in long and in short rhyming lines.

The septenary line, however, in its strict form admits only of monosyllabic caesura and disyllabic ending.

It is septenary in constitution, as may be seen in its vibrations expressed in color and sound.

The four-stressed long lines sometimes alternate with Alexandrine and septenary verses.

More often this septenary metre occurs in short lines (and therefore with fixed masculine caesura).

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