Citations:septimate

Verb

 * 1755, The Monthly Review, or, Literary Journal (printed for Ralph Griffiths at the Dunciad in Pater-noſter-row), volume XIII, article XV: review of “A Diſcourſe on Inoculation, read before the royal academy of ſciences at Paris, the 24th of April, 1754. By Mr. La Condamine, knight of the military order of St. Lazarus, fellow of the royal ſociety, and member of the royal academies of ſciences at Paris and at Berlin.”, page 141
 * ‘Future ages,’ ſays our animated writer, ‘will envy us this diſcovery: nature claimed her tithe; art aſks but her thouſandth.’ Tho’ this, indeed, is not the preſent caſe, perhaps under the moſt judicious application of the practice, it may hereafter, as this gentleman ſuggeſts: and at preſent we may ſay, without the leaſt hyperbole, nature ſeptimates; art centeſimates us.
 * 1825, Robert Archibald Armstrong, A Gaelic Dictionary, in Two Parts, page 492, “Seachdaich”
 * Seachdaich, v. a. (from seachd.) Arrange into sevens; septuplicate; septimate. Pret. a. sheachdaich; fut. aff. a. seachdaichidh.
 * 1852 August, Rev. J. Wenger, “On the desirableness of Commuting the Government Land Tax” (first published in the Calcutta Christian Observer) quoted by Macleod Wylie in Bengal as a Field of Missions (1854), page 285
 * As an instance, that regulation which is usually called the seventh or huftum, may be mentioned. The enforcement of this regulation conveys to the Bengali rayat the same uncomfortable impression, which is usually connected with the idea of being ‘quartered’ or ‘decimated.’ When he sees that he is about to be ‘septimated,’ he makes every effort in his power to escape from his fate by flight, thereby risking the loss of all he possesses in the world.
 * 1938, Geoffrey Clement Watson, The Soil and Social Reclamation (P.S. King), page 102
 * It was during the cold spell of 1935 that influenza and other forms of sickness “septimated” the labour supply for the mines of Southern Rhodesia.

Noun

 * 1876, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, volume 165, part 2, page 418
 * 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.
 * 1942, Herbert Wallace Schneider and George Lawton, A Prophet and a Pilgrim: Being the Incredible History of Thomas Lake Harris and Laurence Oliphant; Their Sexual Mysticisms and Utopian Communities Amply Documented to Confound the Skeptic (Columbia University Press), page 499
 * At the end of this septimate of days he enters into the sabbath of his God.

Adjective

 * 1969, The American Literary Anthology / 2: The Second Annual Collection of the Best from the Literary Magazines (Random House), page 267
 * Now she let her hands sink down, with sudden instant pleasure, 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.