ETYMOLOGY
irregularly from Latin septem (seven) + -ary
EXAMPLE (for adj. 1.)
“… in a shorter time it may be consumed with wind, witches, snuffe-fallings, or such like things which waste it away, but longer it cannot be prolonged: after the same sort standeth the courses and the listes of our liues prescribed by God and prefixed by nature: and so God hath appointed these Septuarie, and Nonarie yeeres as best seeming his wisdome and prouidence. …”
From: The Passions of the Minde in Generall
By: Thomas Wright, 1604
PRONUNCIATION
SEP-choo-uh-ree
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