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seven-day(s, -days', attrib. phr.
1. Consisting of or extending over seven days or a week. Also Comb., seven-days-long adj.
1823Bentham Not Paul 354 The seven-days-long false oath. 1862–3(title) The Seven Days' Journal of Literature, Science, Art, and General Information. 1879Law Rep. (Ireland) II. 386 It is competent to him..to exchange such six-day license for a general or seven-day license. 1885‘H. Conway’ Family Affair vii, The seven days wonder about the boy had almost died away.
2. seven-day(s disease, a form of tetanus. seven-day fever, a kind of relapsing fever; septan fever.
1797Underwood Dis. Childhood I. 377 Having escaped the seven-days-disease, they thrive well until the third or fourth month. 1888Fagge Princ. Med. (ed. 2) I. 153 note, Synonyms [of Relapsing Fever]..bilious remittent, seven-day fever, famine fever. 1891Syd. Soc. Lex., Seven-day disease, a term for Trismus. |