septenary

NOUN
  1. the cardinal number that is the sum of six and one
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  • The sages applied the senary to the physical man; while the septenary was, for them, the symbol of his immortal spirit. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
  • Pantagruel, having writ his letters, sat down at table with him, and afterwards presented him with a large chain of gold, weighing eight hundred crowns, between whose septenary links some large diamonds, rubies, emeralds, turquoise stones, and unions were alternately set in. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • In contrast, the sinister aspect of the Mistress (i.e. Baphomet) was celebrated in the Autumn and was linked to the rising of Arcturus, Arcturus itself being related to the sinister male aspect (second sphere of the septenary), later identified with Lucifer/Satan. The Watcher: The New Zealand Voice of the Left Hand Path #7
  • Base 2 is called binary, Base 3 is called ternary, Base 4 is called quaternary, Base 5 is called quinary, Base 6 is called senary, Base 7 is called septenary, Base 8 is called octonary or octal.
  • To reverse the operation, and convert 2,341 from the denary to the septenary scale, we divide it by 7, and get 334 and remainder 3; divide Amusements in Mathematics
  • Subsequently, septenary figures preoccupied Pico della Mirandola (Heptaplus), Giulio Camillo, John Dee, and Joachim Frizius, who wrote an influential treatise on Rosicrucianism in 1626. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
  • Hence, deriving the suggestion from the apparent septenary rest in nature, they taught that Astral Worship
  • But if a man said that he had 6,553 dollars in the septenary (or seven) scale of notation, you will find that this is precisely the same amount as 2,341 in our ordinary denary scale. Amusements in Mathematics
  • Heraclitus and the Stoics say, that men begin their completeness when the second septenary of years begins, about which time the seminal serum is emitted. Essays and Miscellanies
  • After the same manner a man is completed in the second septenary of years, and is capable of learning what is good and evil, and of discipline therein. Essays and Miscellanies
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