Definitions for septenaries

septenaries sep·te·nar·y

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

Septenaries is a 11 letter English word.

You can make 1157 anagrams from letters in septenaries (aeeeinprsst).

Definitions for septenaries

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 septenaries

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

Examples for septenaries

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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