sevenern.

Brit.

/ˈsɛvn̩ə/,

/ˈsɛvnə/, U.S.

/ˈsɛv(ə)nər/, Australian English

/ˈsev(ə)nə/

Forms: 1800s seven'ner, 1800s– sevener.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: seven adj., -er suffix¹.

Etymology: < seven adj. + -er suffix¹. In sense 1 after German Siebener (1818 in the passage translated in quot. 1835 at sense 1), itself after Arabic sabʿiyya Sevener Shia collectively ( < sabʿa seven + -iyya, suffix forming nouns).

1. Islam. With capital initial. A member of the smaller of the two Shia sects (the ‘Seveners’ and the ‘Twelvers’), which acknowledges only seven Imams; = Ismaelian n. Usually in plural. Cf. Twelver n.²

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society > faith > sect > non-Christian religions > Islam > Islamic sects and groups > [noun] > Shiite > person

Ismaelite1571

Shia1626

Zaidi1709

Shiite1728

Ansarian1787

Nusayri1792

Ismaili1820

Ansayri1824

sevener1835

Ismaelian1839

Alawi1874

Twelver1876

Alawite1922

Hezbollahi1981

1835 O. C. Wood tr. J. von Hammer Hist. Assassins ii. 59 Abdollah Maimun..established seven degrees of his doctrine, for which reason, as well as their opinions concerning the seven imams, his disciples obtained the bye-name of Seveners.

1845 Encycl. Metrop. XXIV. 441/2 The Imámís appear to have derived from the Ghulát the doctrine of a present but invisible Imám, the successor of the seventh or the twelfth of the visible Imáms. From these numbers their two principal branches are denominated Seb'ís (Seveners) or Ithná'asharís (Twelvers).

1957 Encycl. Brit. XII. 710/2 The Ismaʿilis or Seveners are the followers of Ismaʿil, whom they regard as the 7th imam, rather than his younger brother, Musa (797), who is accepted by the Twelvers.

1979 Sunday Tel. 27 May (Colour Suppl.) 25/3 ‘Khomeini is an Ayatullah,’ said the Aga Khan. ‘He is not Imam of the Twelver Shias, whereas I am Imam of the Ismaili Seveners.’

2005 R. Aslan No god but God vii. 185 The followers of Ismail—called the Ismailis, or ‘Seveners’ because they accept the existence of only seven Imams—were not the first to promulgate the doctrine of the Mahdi.

2. slang. A convict sentenced to seven years of penal servitude. Now rare (chiefly Australian).

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prisoner > [noun] > sentenced to specific number of years

sevener1847

niner1897

1847 Morning Post 18 May 7/1 Mr. Commissioner Bullock—No, no; seven years will do on the present occasion. The prisoner muttered—They don't send the seveners off.

1897 ‘P. Warung’ Tales Old Regime 219 Pedder was a ‘sevener’, Blake was a ‘niner’.

1948 F. Clune Wild Colonial Boys 7 The lifers and long-sentence men lorded it over the seveners..for the lifers and long-termers had abandoned hope.

†3. Cricket. A hit scoring seven runs. Cf. seven n. 6c. Obsolete.Although it is still technically possible to make a hit scoring seven, it is a rare occurrence since boundaries (boundary n. 3b) became standard in the early 20th cent.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > [noun] > types of stroke > for specific number of runs

seven1765

four1837

single1851

five1859

sevener1862

sixer1870

fourer1875

two1881

twoer1887

thirteener1893

six1920

Dorothy Dix1979

1862 C. Thornton Conyers Lea vii. 159 They gave us easy pitches, and we hit fourers, fivers, sixers, and an occasional sevener.

1898 in W. A. Bettesworth Chats Cricket Field (1910) 417 Stephens again hit me to leg, but this time he only made a sevener!

1923 Cornhill Mag. July 23 Any number of seveners and even eighters were scored here in old days, more or less to square leg.

4. A line of verse containing seven syllables. Also: a line of verse with seven metrical feet; cf. septenarius n. rare. Cf. seven n. 6d.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [noun] > line > other types of line

underverse1579

recurrent1605

serpentine verse1605

acatalectic1611

rumbler1670

Pindaric1697

quadruped1800

octonarius1819

asynartete1830

pada1855

chronostichon1859

jingle-jangle1864

sevener1920

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [noun] > variety of > septenary

septenarius1706

septenary1819

septenar1882

sevener1920

1920 Glasgow Herald 15 June 5/5 They seem rather based on the Italian sevener with normally three accents.

1993 A. S. Gratwick tr. Plautus Menaechmi (2000) Introd. iv. 41 The commonest metre in Plautus is the trochaic septenarius (‘sevener’) of fifteen metrical places.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	sevener
释义	sevenern. Brit. /ˈsɛvn̩ə/, /ˈsɛvnə/, U.S. /ˈsɛv(ə)nər/, Australian English /ˈsev(ə)nə/ Forms: 1800s seven'ner, 1800s– sevener. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: seven adj., -er suffix¹. Etymology: < seven adj. + -er suffix¹. In sense 1 after German Siebener (1818 in the passage translated in quot. 1835 at sense 1), itself after Arabic sabʿiyya Sevener Shia collectively ( < sabʿa seven + -iyya, suffix forming nouns). 1. Islam. With capital initial. A member of the smaller of the two Shia sects (the ‘Seveners’ and the ‘Twelvers’), which acknowledges only seven Imams; = Ismaelian n. Usually in plural. Cf. Twelver n.² ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > non-Christian religions > Islam > Islamic sects and groups > [noun] > Shiite > person Ismaelite1571 Shia1626 Zaidi1709 Shiite1728 Ansarian1787 Nusayri1792 Ismaili1820 Ansayri1824 sevener1835 Ismaelian1839 Alawi1874 Twelver1876 Alawite1922 Hezbollahi1981 1835 O. C. Wood tr. J. von Hammer Hist. Assassins ii. 59 Abdollah Maimun..established seven degrees of his doctrine, for which reason, as well as their opinions concerning the seven imams, his disciples obtained the bye-name of Seveners. 1845 Encycl. Metrop. XXIV. 441/2 The Imámís appear to have derived from the Ghulát the doctrine of a present but invisible Imám, the successor of the seventh or the twelfth of the visible Imáms. From these numbers their two principal branches are denominated Seb'ís (Seveners) or Ithná'asharís (Twelvers). 1957 Encycl. Brit. XII. 710/2 The Ismaʿilis or Seveners are the followers of Ismaʿil, whom they regard as the 7th imam, rather than his younger brother, Musa (797), who is accepted by the Twelvers. 1979 Sunday Tel. 27 May (Colour Suppl.) 25/3 ‘Khomeini is an Ayatullah,’ said the Aga Khan. ‘He is not Imam of the Twelver Shias, whereas I am Imam of the Ismaili Seveners.’ 2005 R. Aslan No god but God vii. 185 The followers of Ismail—called the Ismailis, or ‘Seveners’ because they accept the existence of only seven Imams—were not the first to promulgate the doctrine of the Mahdi. 2. slang. A convict sentenced to seven years of penal servitude. Now rare (chiefly Australian). ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prisoner > [noun] > sentenced to specific number of years sevener1847 niner1897 1847 Morning Post 18 May 7/1 Mr. Commissioner Bullock—No, no; seven years will do on the present occasion. The prisoner muttered—They don't send the seveners off. 1897 ‘P. Warung’ Tales Old Regime 219 Pedder was a ‘sevener’, Blake was a ‘niner’. 1948 F. Clune Wild Colonial Boys 7 The lifers and long-sentence men lorded it over the seveners..for the lifers and long-termers had abandoned hope. †3. Cricket. A hit scoring seven runs. Cf. seven n. 6c. Obsolete.Although it is still technically possible to make a hit scoring seven, it is a rare occurrence since boundaries (boundary n. 3b) became standard in the early 20th cent. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > [noun] > types of stroke > for specific number of runs seven1765 four1837 single1851 five1859 sevener1862 sixer1870 fourer1875 two1881 twoer1887 thirteener1893 six1920 Dorothy Dix1979 1862 C. Thornton Conyers Lea vii. 159 They gave us easy pitches, and we hit fourers, fivers, sixers, and an occasional sevener. 1898 in W. A. Bettesworth Chats Cricket Field (1910) 417 Stephens again hit me to leg, but this time he only made a sevener! 1923 Cornhill Mag. July 23 Any number of seveners and even eighters were scored here in old days, more or less to square leg. 4. A line of verse containing seven syllables. Also: a line of verse with seven metrical feet; cf. septenarius n. rare. Cf. seven n. 6d. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [noun] > line > other types of line underverse1579 recurrent1605 serpentine verse1605 acatalectic1611 rumbler1670 Pindaric1697 quadruped1800 octonarius1819 asynartete1830 pada1855 chronostichon1859 jingle-jangle1864 sevener1920 society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [noun] > variety of > septenary septenarius1706 septenary1819 septenar1882 sevener1920 1920 Glasgow Herald 15 June 5/5 They seem rather based on the Italian sevener with normally three accents. 1993 A. S. Gratwick tr. Plautus Menaechmi (2000) Introd. iv. 41 The commonest metre in Plautus is the trochaic septenarius (‘sevener’) of fifteen metrical places. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1835
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