Septimate

//ˈsɛptɪmeɪt// adj, noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun

1
A group of seven.
"In the 744 septimates of January there are only seven in which all the W and S are positive; in the 720 of June there are none."

Verb

1
Submit (someone or something) to septimation; reduce by one seventh. transitive
"We may ſay, without the leaſt hyperbole, nature ſeptimates; art centeſimates us."

Adjective

1
In groups of seven. not-comparable, rare
"She let her hands sink down…into the beginning of Partita VI, letting its curious seven-headed rhythm ring out, one after another, like amethysts on a chain. She played the fugue with marked sadness, and then brought back the septimate chords to enclose it."

Example

"We may ſay, without the leaſt hyperbole, nature ſeptimates; art centeſimates us."

Etymology

Latin septimus (“seventh”) + English -ate, after decimate; compare septimation

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