单词 | septennate |
释义 | septennaten. 1. A seven-year term of office. Originally applied to the term of office of the President of the French Republic. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > [noun] > period of specific number of years hendecadOE a week of yearsa1382 weekc1384 Olympiada1387 lustre1387 yearc1425 millenary1551 prenticeship1553 septenary1576 lustrum1590 quinquennal1590 seventy1590 septimane1603 quinquennie1606 threescore (years) and tena1616 duodecad1621 quinquennium1621 jubilee1643 quadrenniala1646 chiliad1653 septennary1659 septennium1660 triennial1661 millennium1664 tetraëterid1678 octennial1679 duodenary1681 quadrennium1779 septenniad1836 quinquenniad1842 milliad1843 tricentenary1846 triennium1847 vicennium1847 bimillenary1850 lustration1853 sexennium1858 septennate1874 quinquennial1877 pentad1880 sexennate1898 aeon1960 society > authority > office > [noun] > period of office > specific period septennate1874 1874 Standard 13 Feb. 3/1 M. Rouher publishes in the Ordre a Bonapartist manifesto, professing to give the views of his party about the septennate of Marshal MacMahon. 1885 Athenæum 2 May 570/1 Lord Carnarvon passed under review the principal events which had marked his septennate. 1895 Westm. Gaz. 15 May 2/2 If this Bill fails or is withdrawn, a Conservative Septennate is as absolute a certainty as to-morrow's sunrise. 2003 D. S. Bell in E. C. Hargrove Future of Democratic Left in Industr. Democracies 50 The key change in the double septennate of President Mitterand was the development of a party of government. 2. German History. A military budget fixed for a period of seven years; this period of seven years. Also used as a modifier.The Septennate was first established by the German parliament in 1874. In 1893 it was replaced by a budget fixed for five years. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > [noun] > period of fixed strength of army septennate1874 1874 Pall Mall Gaz. 13 Apr. 2/1 It will rankle..and may break through—not yet—but before the military septennate has ended. 1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 23 Feb. 11/2 Of the seats occupied by the members of this majority the Septennate party has already captured some thirty or forty by the displacement of former members. 1887 Contemp. Rev. 51 592 The passing of the Septennate Bill will certainly make the French more inclined to pause before attacking Germany. 1980 U.S. Catholic Historian 1 20 Papal support for Bismarck's septennate. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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