A month of Peragration, is the time of the Moons revolution from any part of the Zodiack, unto the same again; and this containeth but 27 daies, and about 8 hours: which cometh short to compleat the septenary account.
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.
And in many places he uses the ternary, quinary, and septenary number, especially the number nine (I.
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.
It is thus seen that no "trials" are necessary; by converting to the septenary scale of notation we go direct to the answer.
But on account of its customary pause after the fourth foot, it very early broke into two short lines of four and three stresses each, and thus the septenary couplet became the ballad stanza.
Two points should further be briefly referred to: The division of time into seven-day periods coincides with the septenary scheme of organization resting upon the seven directions in space.
The septenary group occurs on Stelae A, B, C, E, I, P.
Bowditch, to the fact that Mr. Maudslay now recognizes the general recurrence of an eighth sign in combination with the septenary group, causing this to consist of an initial glyph, followed by seven instead of six signs.
Behind each figure are rows of glyphs and in the upper corner to the left of the spectator is the septenary series headed by the initial-sign.
The turn of a four-dimensional world is near, but the puzzle of science will ever continue until their concepts reach the natural dimensions of visible and invisible space--in its septenary completeness.
The description of the septenary constitution of man found in the 54th chapter of the Yasna, one of the most authoritative books of the Mazdiasnian religion, shows the identity of the doctrines of Avesta and the esoteric philosophy.
The second part stands for the fourth principle of the septenary man, as denoting the configuration of his knowledge or desires.
The Septenary Principle in Esotericism Since the exposition of the Arhat esoteric doctrine was begun, many who had not acquainted themselves with the occult basis of Hindu philosophy have imagined that the two were in conflict.
Manas, the mind, the thinking principle; the fifth principle in the septenary division.
Ahum, the first three principles of septenary human constitution; the gross living body of man according to the Avesta.
A'tma, the spirit; the divine monad; the seventh principle of the septenary human constitution.
It is a system by which each particle of the several men composing the septenary individual receives an impulse, and a habit of doing what is necessary for certain purposes of its own free-will and with "pleasure.
In addition to this the reader must turn to the paper on "The Septenary Principle in Esotericism" (p.
We were taunted by ignorant Brahmins and learned Europeans that our septenary divisions of Nature and everything in it, including man, are arbitrary and not endorsed by the oldest religious systems of the East.
Some authors pretend to assume that this well marked septenarysystem has reference to the Pleiades or Seven stars.
The Egyptians made use of a septenary system in the arrangement of the grand gallery in the center of the great pyramid.
In the three septenary periods which follow birth, the invisible vehicles are still in the womb of mother nature.
Septenary philosophy of Initiation may be summed up as--, 322-u.
Senary applied to the physical man; the septenary to his spirit, 634-l.
The sages applied the senary to the physical man; while the septenary was, for them, the symbol of his immortal spirit.
The numerous applications of the septenary confirmed the ancient sages in the use of this symbol.
Septenary unites the triangle of Idea to the square of Form, becoming the Crown, 321-l.
The Septenary philosophy of Initiation among the Ancients may be summed up thus: Three Absolute Principles which are but One Principle: four elementary forms which are but one; all forming a Single Whole, compounded of the Idea and the Form.
Finally, they completed the sacred Septenary by a mysterious image that represented the progress of the dogma and its future realizations.
The Septenaryis the Crown of the Numbers, because it unites the Triangle of the Idea to the Square of the Form.
But this chapter brings it before us in another aspect, namely, in its relation to the annualseptenary series of sacred seasons, the final festival of which it preceded and introduced.
Thus it is seen that the utmost significance attaches to this septenary pyknosis of the kosmic plasm of life.
Pyknosis, in all of its septenary aspects, is concerned primarily with involution or the preparation of the chaogenetic elements for the work of kosmic evolution.
Septenary or in the iambic five-foot line, but not so frequently in shorter metres, as the resulting interruption of the flow of the rhythm is not so perceptible in long as in short lines.
It does, however, not unfrequently occur in some Early Middle English poems written in Septenary metre, e.
For the rest, all the rhythmic licences of the Septenary occurring in the Moral Ode are also to be met with here; as, for instance, the suppression of the anacrusis in the first hemistich of l.
Another metre, which was equally popular with the tail-rhyme stanza with its many varieties, is the stanza formed of two Septenary verses (catalectic tetrameters).
At the end of the thirteenth century the Septenary and Alexandrine were, however, relegated to a subordinate position by the new fashionable five-foot iambic verse.
In either arrangement the relationship of the metre to the Septenaryverse comes clearly out.
Chapman, in his translation of Homer, often uses it in Septenary verses as well as in five-foot iambic verses.
More often this Septenary metre occurs in short lines (and therefore with fixed masculine caesura).
A noteworthy indication of want of skill in the handling of the Septenary in this first attempt is the frequent occurrence of a superfluous syllable at the close of the first hemistich, which should only admit of an acatalectic ending, e.
In Middle English poetry Septenary verses are often used in this way on the Low Latin model (cf.
It may be thought a strange propensity to grapple with difficulties, that leads me to select Lepidoptera as a class, by which to exemplify, in detail, the septenary and circular arrangement.
And thus far he reach'd in his Contemplations, about the end of the fourth Septenary of his Age, viz.
Thus far his Knowledge had brought him towards the end of the fifth Septenary from his Birth, viz.
Any one can, however, see in them an undoubted reference to that septenary division which so universally prevailed throughout the ancient world, and the influence of which is still felt even in the common day life and observances of our time.
The septenary division of time into weeks of seven days, although not universal, as has been generally supposed, was sufficiently so to indicate the influence of the number.
In the Elizabethan age the alexandrine and the septenary were each used chiefly in conjunction with the other, in alternation of six-stress and seven-stress verses.
The early alexandrines usually appear in conjunction with the septenary (seven-stress verse).
Similarly, in septenary verse internal rime was often used together with end-rime, with a resulting resolution into short-line stanzas riming either aabb or abab.
The earliest appearance of the septenary in English is in the Poema Morale, dated about 1170 by Zupitza, by others somewhat later.
Here the septenary is introduced in the May-day song of Ralph, the London apprentice, doubtless because of its popularity for such unliterary verse.
These specimens show the ballad stanza, which is made of a sort of septenary resolved into short lines of four and three accents.
This is a rare instance of the use of the long septenary in nineteenth-century poetry.
In this specimen we have the septenarywithout rime, a rare form.
These are the literal meanings; the mystic meanings are very different, and among other things denote the septenary prismatic colours and other septenaries in nature.
In the Septenary the Quaternary represents the Manifested and the Triad the Concealed Side of the Fire.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "septenary" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
