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septenar, n. Pros.|ˈsɛptɪnɑː(r)|
[ad. L. septēnār-ius; cf. F. septénaire and -ar2.]
= septenary n. 5, septenarius n.
1911R. W. Bond Early Plays from Italian 82 These septenars, or fourteeners, popularized by Phaer..form in the contemporary drama the transition from the irregular dancing doggerel to the rhymed decasyllabic... In the Marriage of Wit and Science regular septenars alternate with rhymed decasyllabics. 1945E. K. Chambers Eng. Lit. at Close of Middle Ages iii. 131 From this period [sc. the latter part of the 15th cent.] we have some of the tales [of Robin Hood] themselves. They are written in septenars. 1962R. W. Burchfield in Davis & Wrenn Eng. & Medieval Stud. 100 As..the word occurs in the final position in the septenar, the stem vowel must be long. |