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septenary [ˈsɛptɪnərɪ] n pl -naries 1. the number seven 2. a group of seven things 3. a period of seven years 4. (Literature / Poetry) Prosody a line of seven metrical feet [from Latin septēnārius, from septēnī seven each, from septem seven] Septenary a group of seven; seven years. Examples: septenary of days (a week), 1660; of planets, 1650; of years.
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A naturalist, struck by a parallelism of this nature in any one class, by arbitrarily raising or sinking the value of the groups in other classes (and all our experience shows that this valuation has hitherto been arbitrary), could easily extend the parallelism over a wide range; and thus the septenary, quinary, quaternary, and ternary classifications have probably arisen. |
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