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septuagenarian, a. and n.|ˌsɛptjʊədʒɪˈnɛərɪən|
[f. L. septuāgēnārius, f. septuāgēnī, distributive of septuāgintā (see Septuagint).]
A. adj.
1. Pertaining to the number seventy. rare.
1715M. Davies Athen. Brit. I. 96 Unquestionably believ'd it [sc. the Septuagint] to have been perform'd by the same Septuagenarian and Binary number (for the Translators are reckon'd to have been 72 Elders of the Jews).
2. Seventy years old; characteristic of that age.
1793tr. Gresset's Ver-Vert (ed. 2) 41 A sulky, sour, septagenarian [sic] maid Is made the keeper of the Renegade. 1883Brit. Q. Rev. Oct. 441 Our septuagenarian premier.
B. n. A person seventy years old.
1805in Spirit Publ. Jrnls. IX. 1, I am an elderly man, verging now upon the glory of a septuagenarian. 1864Knight Passages Work. Life III. ii. 23 Landor..although..a septuagenarian..was in the full vigour of his understanding.
Hence ˌseptuageˈnarianism.
1824Dibdin Libr. Comp. 532 In the plentitude of septuagenarianism. |