Citations:septimation


 * 1844, J.A.T., “Observations on the Genius of the Christian Sabbath, as Illustrated in the Life of Wilberforce” in The Oberlin Evangelist eds. Henry Cowles and Asa Mahan, volume 6, № 5, page 40
 * To Wilberforce ‘the Sabbath was a delight,’ as well as ‘the Holy of the Lord.’ O how often, even among those who most punctiliously observe it, does it seem to be ‘a weariness to the flesh,’ an unwelcome exaction, a sort of septimation of time, as grievous as church decimations of property, and indeed, amounting in their view to the same thing, since “time is money.”
 * 1853, William Jackman [aut.] and the Rev. I. Chamberlayne [ed.], The Australian Captive; or, An Authentic Narrative of Fifteen Years in the Life of William Jackman, chapter XVII, ¶ 2: “Deaths on both sides.”, page 206
 * We had gone into the enemy’s ground with seven hundred warriors — a little over one hundred of whom were missing when we left it — as, at that time, we could hardly muster six hundred. This septimation of our men was accompanied by a proportionate riddance of such encumbrances of the expedition as wore the shape of women and little ones.