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单词 septennial
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septennialadj.

Brit. /sɛpˈtɛnɪəl/, U.S. /sɛpˈtɛniəl/
Forms: 1600s septenniall, 1600s– septennial.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin septennium , -al suffix1.
Etymology: < classical Latin septennium septennium n. + -al suffix1.
1. Recurring every seven years.
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the world > time > period > year > [adjective] > occurring every specific number of years
quinquennal1532
quinquennial1601
five-yearly1619
centenary1620
septennial1640
triannual1640
triennial1642
septennary1644
sexennial1646
trieterical1646
novennial1656
octennial1656
trieteric1656
quinquennalian1692
quadrenniala1700
biennial1750
sexennary1753
lustral1781
centennial1797
quaternal1813
sextennial1814
septendecennial1834
septemdecenary1843
undecennarya1847
bicentenary1862
bicentennial1883
quadricentennial1889
trigintennial1894
twelve-yearly1906
vigintennial1921
1640 J. Howell Δενδρολογια 23 Being dispensed withall for his septenniall visit.
1749 S. Johnson Vanity Human Wishes 10 Our supple Tribes..ask no Questions but the Price of Votes; With Weekly Libels and Septennial Ale, Their Wish is full to riot and to rail.
1866 J. G. Murphy Crit. Comm. Exodus xxiii. 10, 11 The septennial Sabbath thus bore a complete analogy to the hebdomadal.
1886 Field 30 Jan. 118/2 He was ready to accept a principle of septennial revaluations.
1937 Internat. Theosophical Year Bk. 164/2 The septennial recurrence of the World Congress..was resumed at Geneva in 1936.
2008 Archivium Hibernicum 61 15 They instituted a septennial visitation throughout the whole kingdom.
2. Lasting seven years; spec. (British History) with reference or allusion to the Septennial Act (cf. Septennial Act n. at Compounds).
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the world > time > period > year > [adjective] > lasting for several years > that lasts a specific number of years
seven yeara1393
quinquenniala1475
triennial1641
septennary1644
biennial1645
septenarian1647
septennial1648
diennial1656
quadrennial1656
trienniated1661
quintennial1687
semi-millenary1728
1648 Mercurius Aulicus 7 Aug. 4 The mysterious juglers of the knavish science in a paper designe, parrat forth some lumpish relicks of Royall honesty in this septennial dearth of Loyalty.
1719 R. Steele Plebeian No. 4 (ad fin.) Sitting out the remainder of the septennial term.
1772 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra I. Ded. p. viii Although the last session of a septennial parliament be usually employed in courting the favour of the people.
a1832 G. Crabbe Posthumous Tales i, in Poet. Wks. (1834) VIII. 243 When once enlisted upon either side, He must the rude septennial storm abide.
1881 Nation (N.Y.) 32 384 The argument..may also be used in behalf of triennial or of septennial, or of decennial sessions.
1935 Aberdeen Press & Jrnl. 11 Jan. 9/5 An allowance should be made to him in fixing the rent for the usual septennial period.
2016 P. Ackroyd Revolution (2017) viii. 80 As a direct result of the Jacobite scare, parliament passed a Septennial Bill that extended its life from three years to seven years.

Compounds

Septennial Act n. now historical an Act of Parliament passed by the British government in 1716, which fixed the maximum length of a parliament at seven years.
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1717 D. Defoe Some National Grievances 14 The Septennial Act the Tories declaim against most bitterly, as contrary to all Justice.
1759 T. Smollett Hist. Eng. X. 42 That a bill should be brought in for repealing the septennial act.
2003 D. Stasavage Public Debt & Birth Democratic State 113 Only three out of 145 Tories voted for the Septennial Act in 1716.

Derivatives

sepˈtennialist n. a person who is in favour of septennial parliaments.Esp. with reference to 19th-cent. debates about the length of parliaments.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > English or British parliament > [noun] > condition of being septennial > one who favours
septennialist1817
1817 Detector No. 3. 11 Let me hope, Mr. Cobbett, that the annualists will consider the septennialists somewhat liberal, if they recede thus much from their opinion, to satisfy the clamorists for abridgment.
1820 Examiner No. 612. 13/1 To Annual Parliaments the objections of the Septennialists are singularly weak.
1892 Rev. of Reviews 5 3/2 Balfour is too ardent a Septennialist to sanction a premature dissolution.
septenniˈality n. the condition of being septennial.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > English or British parliament > [noun] > condition of being septennial
septenniality1817
1817 J. Bentham Plan Parl. Reform Introd. 282 The reduction, of the at present established long term indicated by the word septenniality, to the dimensions of this short term.
1874 Public Opinion 17 Jan. 68/2 M. de Broglie, the organ and guide of the septennial policy, had to abstain prudently from giving any explanations as to the septenniality of the powers of Marshal MacMahon.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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