SEPTILATERAL
SEPTILAT'ERAL, adjective [L. septem, seven and latus, side.] Having seven sides; as a septilateral figure.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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SEPTINSULAR
SEPTIN'SULAR, adjective [Latin septum, seven, and insula, isle.] Consisting of seven isles; as the septinsular republic of the Ionian isles.
SEPTUAGENARY
SEPTUAG'ENARY, adjective [Latin septuagenarius, from septuaginta, seventy.] Consisting of seventy.SEPTUAG'ENARY, noun A person seventy years of age.
SEPTUAGESIMA
SEPTUAGES'IMA, noun [Latin septuagesimus, seventieth.] THe third Sunday before Lent, or beforeQuadragesima Sunday, supposed to be called because it is about seventy days before ...
SEPTUAGESIMAL
SEPTUAGES'IMAL, adjective [supra.] Cosisting of seventy.Our abriged and septuagesimal age. Brown.
SEPTUAGINT
SEP'TUAGINT, noun [Latin septuaginta, seventy; septem, seven, and some word signifying ten.] A Greek version of the Old Testament, so call because it was the work of seventy, or...
SEPTUARY
SEP'TUARY, noun [Latin septum, seven.] Something composed of seven; a week. [Little used.]
SEPTUPLE
SEP'TUPLE, adjective [Low Latin septuplex; septum, seven. and plico, to fold.] Seven fold; seven times as much.
SEPULCHER
SEP'ULCHER, noun [from Latin sepulchrum, from sepelio, to bury, which seems to be formed with a prefix on the Goth. filhan, to bury.] A grave; atomb; the place in which a dead b...
SEPULCHRAL
SEPUL'CHRAL, adjective [Latin sepulchralis, from sepulchrum.] Pertaining to burial, to grave, or to monuments erected to the memory of the dead; as sepulchral stone; a sepulchra...
SEPULTURE
SEP'ULTURE, noun Burial; internment; the act of depositing the dead body of a human being in the grave.Where we may royal sepulture prepare. Dryden.
SEQUACIOUS
SEQUA'CIOUS, adjective [Latin sequax, from sequor, to follow. See Seek.]1. Following; attendant.Trees uprooted left their place,Sequacious of the lyre. Dryden.The fond sequaciou...
SEQUACIOUSNESS
SEQUA'CIOUSNESS, noun State of being sepuacious; disposition to follow.
SEQUACITY
SEQUAC'ITY, noun [supra.]1.A following, or disposition to follow.2. Ductility; pliableness. [Little used.]
SEQUEL
SE'QUEL, noun [L. sequor, to follow.]1. That which follows; a succeeding part; as the sequel of a man's adventures or history.2. Consequence; event. Lit the sun or moon cease, f...
SEQUENCE
SE'QUENCE, noun [L. sequens, sequor.]1. A following, or that which follows; aconsequent.2. Order of succession.How art thou king But by fair sequence and succession? Shak.3. Ser...
SEQUENT
SE'QUENT, adjective [supra.]1. Following; succeeding.2. Consequential. [Little used.]SE'QUENT, noun A follower. [Not in use.]
SEQUESTER
SEQUES'TER, verb transitive [L. sequestro, to sever or separate, to put int the hands of and indifferent person, as a deposit; sequester, belonging to mediation or umpirage, and...
SEQUESTERED
SEQUES'TERED, participle passive Seized asnd detained for a time, to satisfy a demand; separated; also, being in retirement; secluded; private; as a sequestered situation.
SEQUESTRABLE
SEQUES'TRABLE, adjective That may be seqestered or separated; subject or liable to sequestration.
SEQUESTRATE
SEQUES'TRATE, verb transitive To seqester. [It is less used than seqester, but exactly synonymous.]
SEQUESTRATION
SEQUESTRA'TION, noun1. The act of taking a thing from parties contending for it, and entrusting it to an indifferent person.2. In the civil law, the act of the ordinary, disposi...
SEQUESTRATOR
SEQUESTRA'TOR, noun1. One that sequesters property, or takes the possession of it for a time, to satilfy a demand out of its rents or profits.2. One to whom the keeping of seque...
SEQUIN
SE'QUIN, noun A gold coin of Venice and Turkey, of different value in different places. At Venice, its value is about 9s. 2d. sterling, or $2.04. In other parts of Italy, it is ...
SERAGLIO
SERAGLIO, noun seral'yo. The palace of the Grand Seignior or Turkish sultan, or the palace of a prince. The seraglio of the sultan is a long range of buildings inhabited by the ...
SERAPH
SER'APH, nounpluralseraphs; but sometimes the Hebrew plural, seraphim, is used. [from Heb. to burn.] An angel of the highest order.As full, as perfect in vile man that mourns,As...
SERAPHIC
SERAPH'IC, adjective