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A period of seven years; as, the septennate during which the President of the French Republic holds office.

Lasting or continuing seven years; as, septennial parliaments.

Once in seven years.

A person who is seventy years of age; a septuagenary.

Consisting of seventy; also, seventy years old. -- n.

Consisting of seventy days, years, etc.; reckoned by seventies. Our abridged and septuagesimal age. Sir T. Browne.

king But by fair sequence and succession Shak. Sequence and series of the seasons of the year. Bacon.

course; a succession of things; as, a continuous series of calamitous events. During some years his life a series of triumphs. Macaulay.

erts himself for the benefit of another, his master or employer; a subordinate helper. "A yearly hired servant." Lev. xxv. 53. Men in office have begun to think themselves mere agents and servants of the appointing power, and not agents of the government or the country. D. Webster.

I serve with my spirit. Rom. i. 9. Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter. Gen. xxix. 18. No man can serve two masters. Matt. vi. 24. Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies. Shak.…

ars (Astron.), the Pleiades. -- Seven wonders of the world. See under Wonders. -- Seven-year apple (Bot.), a rubiaceous shrub (Genipa clusiifolia) growing in the West Indies; also, its edible fruit. -- Seven-year vine (Bot.), a tropical climbing plant (Ipomoea tuberosa) related to the morning-glory.…

at the rate of seven and three tenths (thirty hundredths) per cent annually. Within a few years they were all redeemed or funded.

twenty, that is, a hundred and forty. The old Countess of Desmond . . . lived sevenscore years. Bacon.

One more than sixteen; ten and seven added; as, seventeen years.

Next in order after the sixty-ninth; as, a man in the seventieth year of his age.

A person who is sixty years old.

Pertaining to, or designating, the number sixty; poceeding by sixties; sixty years old. Sexagenary arithmetic. See under Sexagesimal. -- Sexagenary, or Sexagesimal, scale (Math.), a scale of numbers in which the modulus is sixty. It is used in treating the divisions of the circle.

Lasting six years, or happening once in six years. -- n.

Once in six years.

To scatter about. [Obs.] Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Milton.