septile 
septile (sep'til), a. [< L. seeptum, septum, an 
inclosure, + -He.'] In bot., of or belonging to 
septa or dissepiments. 
septillion (sep-til'yon), n. [< L. septem, seven, 
+ F. (m)illion, million : see million 1 .'] 1. In the 
British system of numeration, a million raised 
to the seventh power; a number expressed by 
unity followed by forty-two ciphers. 2. In the 
French numeration, generally taught in the 
United States, the eighth power of a thousand ; 
a thousand sextillions. 
septimal (sep'ti-mal), a. [< L. Septimus, sep- 
I minis, seventh (<. septem, seven), + -al.] Re- 
lating to the number seven. 
septimanarian (sep'ti-ma-na'ri-an). n. [< ML. 
.a-ptiiHHi/itriitx (see def.) (< LL. septinuui/i. a 
week, < L. septimanus, pertaining to the num- 
ber seven, < septem, seven) + -an.] A monk 
on duty for a week. Imp. Diet. 
septime (sep'tem), n. [< L. Septimus, the 
seventh, < septem, seven, = E. seven: see seven.] 
The seventh position assumed by a swordsman 
after drawing his weapon from the scabbard. 
The hand being kept opposite the right breast with the 
nails upward, the point of the foil is directed a little down- 
ward and in a section of a circle to the left, thus causing the 
opponent's point to deviate, and pass the body. Practi- 
cally this parry is only quart with the point lowered to 
protect the lower part of the body. Also thrust or point 
in septime that is, defended by the parry called septime. 
septimole (sep'ti-mol), n. [< L. septtm, seven 
(septimits, seventh), + -ole.] In music, a group 
of -seven notes to be played in the time of four 
or six of the same kind. It is indicated by the 
sign '"7 s placed over the group. Also septole. 
septinsular (sep-tin'su-lar), a. [< L. septem, 
seven, + instila, island : see insular.] Pertain- 
ing to or made up of seven islands : as, the sep- 
tinsular republic of the Ionian Islands. [Bare. ] 
A Septinsular or Heptanesian history, as distinguished 
from the individual histories of the seven islands. 
Encyc. Brit, XIII. 206. 
septisyllable (sep'ti-sil-a-bl), n. [< L. septem, 
seven, + syllaba, syllable : see syllable.] A word 
of seven syllables. 
septole (sep'tol), n. [< L. septem, seven, + -ole.] 
Same as septimole. 
septomaxillary (sep-to-mak'si-la-ri), . and n. ; 
pi. septoinaxillaries (-riz). [< NL. septum, q. v., 
+ E. maxillary.'] I. a. Combining characters 
of a nasal septum and of a maxillary bone; 
common to or connecting such parts, as a bone 
or cartilage of some vertebrates. 
II. . In ornitk., a bone which in some birds 
unites the maxillopalatines of opposite sides 
across the midline of the skull with each other 
or with the vomer. Nature, XXXVII. 501. 
septonasal (sep-to-na'zal), a. and n. [< NL. sep- 
tum, q. v., 4- L. namm, nose: see nasal.] I. a. 
Forming a nasal septum; internasal: as, the 
septonasal cartilage of an embryonic skull. 
II. . A bone which in some birds forms a 
nasal septum. W. K. Parker. 
septuagenarian (sep-tu-aj-e-na'ri-an), n. [< 
septuagenary + -an.} A person seventy years 
of age, or between seventy and eighty. 
septuagenary (sep-tu-aj'e-na-ri), a. and n. [= 
F. neptuagenaire = Sp. Pg. septuagenario = It. 
settuagenario, < L. septuagenarius, belonging to 
the number seventy, < septuageni, seventy each, 
distributive form of septuaginta, seventy: see 
septuagint.] I. a. Consisting of seventy, espe- 
cially of seventy years ; pertaining to a person 
seventy or seventy odd years old. 
Nor can the three hundred years of John.of times, or 
Nestor, overthrow the assertion of Moses, or afford a rea- 
sonable encouragement beyond his septuagenary deter- 
mination. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., iii. 9. 
II. . ; pi. septuagenaries (-riz). A septuage- 
narian. 
septuagesima (sep*tu-a-jes'i-ma), n. [= F. 
septuagesimc = Sp. Pg. septuagesima = It. set- 
tuagesima = G. septuagesima, < L. septuagesima 
(dies), seventieth (day), fern, of septuagesimus, 
seventieth, < septuaginta, seventy: see septua- 
gint.] 1. A period of seventy days. 2. leap.] 
The third Sunday before Lent: more fully 
called Septuagesima Sunday. The original history 
of this name and of Sexagesima (applied to the Sunday 
following) is not known ; and any direct reference to sixty 
and seventy in these periods of sixty-three and fifty-six 
days before Easter is not to be traced. The probability 
is that the use of Quadragesima Sunday for the first Sun- 
day in Quadragesima or Lent, and the independent use 
of Quinquagesima for the fiftieth day before Easter (both 
included), led to the extension of the series by the inexact 
application of the names Sexagesima and Septuagesima to 
the two Sundays preceding. Also called 7/ogf Sunday, 
Alleluia Sunday. See Sunday. 
septuagesimal (sep'tu-a-jes'i-mal), a. [< sep. 
tuagcsima + -al.] Consisting of seventy, es- 
6502 
pecially of seventy (or between seventy and 
eighty) years. 
Our abridged and septuagesimal ages. 
Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err. , vi. 6. 
Septuagint (sep'tu-a-jint), n. and a. [F. les 
.-ii'lilinili' : G. septuag'lnla (def. 2); < L. septua- 
f/inta (Gr. elWout/navra), seventy: see seventy.] 
1. n. If. The Seventy that is, the seventy (or 
more) persons who, according to the tradition, 
made a translation of the Hebrew Scriptures into 
Greek. The rounded legend is that the translation was 
made by seventy-two persons in seventy-two days. In 
another view, the Seventy were members of the sanhe- 
drim (about seventy in number) who sanctioned the trans- 
lation. 
The Septuagints translation. Minsheu. 
2. A Greek version of the Hebrew Scriptures 
made by the Seventy (see def. 1): usually ex- 
pressed by the symbol LXX ('the Seventy'). 
This version is said by Josepbus to have been made in the 
reign and by the order of Ptolemy Philadelphus, King of 
Egypt, about 270 or 280 years before the birth of Christ. 
It is supposed, however, by modern critics that this ver- 
sion of the several books is the work, not only of different 
hands, but of separate times. It is probable that at first 
only the Pentateuch was translated, and the remaining 
books gradually ; but the translation is believed to have 
been completed by the second century B. c. The Septua- 
gint is written in the Hellenistic (Alexandrine) dialect, and 
Is linguistically of great importance from its effect upon 
the diction of the New Testament, and as the source of a 
large part of the religious and theological vocabulary of 
the Greek fathers, and (through the Old Latin version of 
the Bible (see Italic) and the influence of this on the Vul- 
gate) of that of the Latin fathers also and of all western 
nations to the present day. In the Greek Church the 
Septuagint has been in continuous use from the earliest 
times, although other Greek versions (see Hexapla) were 
anciently also in circulation, and it is the Old Testament 
still used in that church. The Septuagint contains the 
books called Apocrypha intermingled among the other 
books. It is the version out of which most of the citations 
in the New Testament from the Old are taken. Abbre- 
viated Sept. 
II. a. Pertaining to the Septuagint; con- 
tained in the Greek copy of the Old Testament. 
Septuagintal (sep'tu-a-jin'tal), a. [< Septua- 
gint + -al.] Pertaining or relating to the Sep- 
tuagint; contained in the Septuagint. 
The Septuagintal tradition was at length set aside. 
Smith, Diet, of the Bible, III. 1701. 
septuaryt (sep'tu-a-ri), n. [< L. septem, seven 
(after septua(gint)), + -ary.] Something com- 
posed of seven ; a week. Ash. 
septulate (sep'tu-lat), a. [< NL. "septulattis, < 
seplidum, a little partition, inclosure: see sep- 
tulum.] 1. In zobl. and anat., having a septu- 
lum or septula. 2. In bot., noting fruits hav- 
ing imperfect or false septa. 
septulum (sep'tu-lum), w.; pi. septula (-la). 
[NL., dim. of L. s&pturn, septum, a partition: 
see septum.] A little septum or small parti- 
tion Septula renum, inward prolongations of the 
cortical substance of the kidneys, extending between the 
pyramids as far as the sinus and bases of the papillee. 
Also called columnx Bertini or columns of Berlin, and 
cortical columns. 
septum (sep'tum), . ; pi. septa (-ta). [NL., < 
L. sseptum, septum, fence, inclosure, partition, 
< ssepire, sepire, pp. seeptus, septus, hedge in, in- 
close, < ssepes, sepes, a hedge, a fence.] A par- 
tition ; a wall separating two cavities. 
It is found upon experiment that hydrogen goes through 
a septum or wall of graphite four times as fast as oxygen. 
W. K. Cliford, Lectures, I. 206. 
Specifically (a) In bot., any kind of a partition, whether 
a proper dissepiment or not : as, the septum in a seed ; the 
septum of a spore. (6) In anat. and KM., a partition ; a wall 
between two cavities, or a structure 
which divides a part or an organ into 
separate portions; a dissepiment. In 
vertebrates the formations known as 
septa are most frequently situated 
in the vertical longitudinal median 
line of the body, but may be trans- 
verse or otherwise disposed. A num- 
ber of them are specified by quali- 
fying words. See phrases following, 
(c) In corals, a calcified mesentery ; 
one of the six or more vertical plates 
which converge from the wall to the 
axis of the visceral space, dividing 
this into a number of radiating locu- 
li or compartments. Each septum 
appears single or simple, but is real- 
ly a duplicature of closely apposed 
plates, just as the mesentery itself 
is a fold. They are to be distinguish- 
ed from the horizontal dissepiments, 
or tabulae, which may cut them at 
right angles. They are variously 
modified in details of form, may be 
connected by synapticulse, and are 
divided, according to their forma- 
tion, into primary, secondary, and 
tertiary, (d) In conch., one of the 
transverse partitions which separate 
the cavity of the shell of a cephalo- 
pod into chambers, (e) In Vermes, a 
sort of diaphragm, a series of which 
I. Fruit of Poppy, cut 
transversely to show the 
12 septa IS) with the 
same, the seeds omit- 
ted. 
sepnlcher 
may partition a worm into several cavities. (/) In Pro- 
tozoa, the wall between any two compartments of the 
test, as of a foraminifer. Branchial, crural, Inter- 
muscular, nasal, pectinifonn, pericardia! septum. 
See the adjectives. Septum aorticum, the aortic or 
anterior segment of the mitral valve. Septum atrium, 
or septum auricularum, the partition between the 
right and left auricles of the heart. It is perfect in the 
adults of the higher vertebrates, as mammals and birds, 
l>ut in the embryo is perforated by an opening called 
foramen ocale, from its shape in man. Septum cere- 
belli Same as falx cerebelli. Septum COrdlB, the 
partition between the right and left cavities of the heart. 
Septum crurale, a layer of condensed areolar tissue 
which closes the femoral ring in man, serves as a barrier 
to the protrusion of a femoral hernia, and is perforated 
for the passage of lymphatics : badly so named by J. 
Cloquet, and better called septum femorale. Septum 
femorale, the septum crurale. II. dray, Anut. (ed. 1888). 
Septum linguae, the partition ol the tongue ; a verti- 
cal median layer of fibrous tissue dividing the tongue into 
right and left halves. It sometimes includes a cartila- 
ginous rod, as the lytta or so-called " worm " of a dog's 
tongue. See lytta. Septum lucidum, the median par- 
tition of the lateral ventricles of the brain, inclosing the 
camera, pseudocode, or so-called fifth ventricle. Also 
called septum peUuciditm, septum medium, septum ventri- 
culorum, ventricular septum, septum mtdullare triangulare. 
See cut under corpus. Septum narium, the partition 
between the right and left nasal cavities or meatus of the 
nose. In man it is formed chiefly by the niesethmoid, or 
perpendicular plate of the ethmoid, the vomer, and the tri- 
angular cartilage of the nose. Septum nasi. Samcasp- 
tum narium. In zoology it is often restricted to the surface 
between the openings of the right and left nostrils, which 
may be of this or that character, deeply clef t as in the hare, 
hairy or naked, etc. Septum orbitale or orbitarum, 
the orbital partition ; any formation which separates the 
right and left eye-sockets. The term is less frequently used 
in relation tomammals, whose eyes are generally small and 
far apart, than among lower vertebrates, as birds, whose 
orbits are very large comparatively, and separated only 
by a thin vertical plate of bone, which may be perforated, 
or so far defective that the opposite orbits are thrown into 
one large cavity. Septum pectlniforme, the pectinated 
septum of the penis, a median vertical partition between 
the right and left cavernous bodies of that organ. In man 
it is a dense, firm fibrous structure with many vertical 
slits, through which the blood-vessels of the opposite sides 
communicate freely, this comb like appearance giving the 
name. It sometimes includes an ossification, the os penis 
or penis-bone, as in the dog, racoon, etc. Also called septum 
penis. Septum pontis, the septum of the pons Varolii. 
Septum rectovaginale, the wall which separates the 
rectal from the vaginal cavity. Septum scroll, the par- 
tition between the right and left cavities of the scrotum. 
Septum sphenoldale, the mesial partition between 
the sphenoidal sinuses. Septum tranaversum.the di- 
aphragm ; the transverse partition between the thoracic 
and abdominal cavities. Septum ventriculorum, or 
ventricular septum, (a) The partition between the 
right and left ventricles of the heart. (&) Same as septum 
lucidum. 
septuor (sep'tu-or), n. [F.,< "L.sept( em), seven, 
+ (quatt)uor, four.] Same as septet. 
septuple (sep'tu-pl), a. [< F. septuple, < LL. 
'septuplus (in neut. as a noun septuplum, a sep- 
tuple) (= Or. tTrrajr/touf, sevenfold), < L. septem, 
seven, + -phis, akin to -fold. Cf. duple, quadru- 
ple, etc.] Sevenfold; seven times as much. 
septuple (sep'tu-pl), v. t. ; pret. and pp. sep- 
tupled, ppr. septupling. [< septuple, a.] To 
multiply by seven ; increase sevenfold. 
And the fire in an oven whose heat was septupled touch- 
ed not those three servants of the Lord. 
Sea. T. Adams, Works, I. 91. 
septuplet (sep'tu-plet), n. [< LL. septuplum, 
a septuple : see septuple.} Same as septimole. 
Compare triplet, decimole, etc. 
septuret, A Middle English spelling of scep- 
ter. 
sepulcher, sepulchre (sep'ul-ker), . [< ME. 
sepulcre, sepulchre, sepulcur, < OF. seputcre, later 
sepulchre, F. sepulcre = Pr. sepulcre = Sp. Pg. 
sepulcro = It. sepolcro, < L. sepulcrum, also er- 
roneously spelled sepulchrum, a burial-place, 
grave, tomb, sepulcher; with formative -crtim 
(as in fulcrum, simulacrum, etc.), < sepelire, pp. 
sepultus, bury, prob. orig. ' honor,' or ' show re- 
spect to,' = Skt. saparya, worship, < "sapas, 
honor, < -\/ sap, honor, worship.] 1. A tomb; 
a cave, building, etc., for interment; a burial- 
vault. 
The sepulcur that therinne was layde 
His blessud bodi al be-bled. 
Holy Rood (E. E. T. S.), p. 190. 
It is not longe sithen the Sepulcre was alle open, that 
Men inyjtlitc kisse it and touche it. 
Mandeville, Travels, p. 75, 
He rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre t _ and 
departed. Mat. xxvii. 60. 
2. In eccles. arch., a recess in some early 
churches, in which were placed on Good Fri- 
day, with appropriate ceremonies, the cross, 
the reserved sacrament, and the sacramental 
plate, and from which they were taken at high 
mass on Easter, to typify the burial and resur- 
rection of Christ Knights of the Holy Sepul- 
cher. See knight. Order of the Holy Sepulcher, the 
name of several orders. One, said to have been founded 
by the Crusaders, but in reality probalily by Pope Alexan- 
der VI., was by Pope Pius IX. divided into three classes. 
