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SETTUAGINT, s. [septuaginta, Lat.] The old Greek 
version of the Old Testament, so called as being supposed 
the work of seventy-two interpreters.—Which way soever 
you try, you shall find the product great enough for the 
extent of this earth; and if you follow the septuagint chro¬ 
nology, it will still be far higher. Burnet. 
SEPTUM, in Anatomy, a name applied to various parts 
of the body; generally such as separate contiguous cavities. 
The Septum Auricularum in the heart is placed between 
the two auricles. Septum Cerebri and Cerebetli, the falci¬ 
form processes of the dura mater, &c. 
SE'PTUPLE, adj. [septuples, Lat.] Seven times as 
much. A technical term. 
SEPU, a village of Asiatic Turkey, in the government of 
Sivas; 40 miles south-east of Sivas. 
SEPU'LCHRAL, adj. [sepulchral, Fr.; sepulcralis, 
from sepulchrmn , Lat.] Relating to burial; relating to the 
grave; monumental. 
Sepulchral lies our holy walls to grace. 
And new-year odes. Pope. 
SE'PULCHRE, s. [sepulcre, Fr.; sepulchrum, Lat.] 
A grave; a tomb. 
To entail him and his heirs unto the crown, 
What is it but to make thy sepulchre ? Shalcspeare. 
Flies and spiders get a sepulchre in amber, more durable 
than the monument and embalming of any king. Bacon. 
To SE'PULCHRE, v. a. [accented on the second sylla¬ 
ble by Shakspeare and Milton.] To bury; to entomb. 
Go to thy lady’s grave, and call her thence; 
Or, at the least, in her’s sepulchre thine. Shakspeare. 
I am glad to see that time survive, 
When merit is not sepulchre'd alive; 
Where good men’s virtues them to honours bring. 
And not to dangers. B. Jonson. 
Thou so sepulchre'd in such pomp do’st lie, 
That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. Milton. 
Disparted streams shall from their channels fly, 
And, deep surcharg’d, by sandy mountains lie, 
Obscurely sepulchre'd. Prior. 
SE'PULTURE, s. [sepulture, Fr.; sepultura, Lat] 
Interment; burial.—In England sepulture, or burial of the 
dead, may be deferred and put off for the debts of the per¬ 
son deceased. Ayliffe. 
SEPULVEDA, a small town of Spain, in Old Castile, 
f irovince of Segovia, on a height near the river Duraton. 
t contains 1600 inhabitants, and the environs produce 
quantities of flax and hemp; 24 miles east-north-east of 
Segovia. 
SEQUA'CIOUS, adj. [sequacis, Lat.] Following; at¬ 
tendant.—-Rather a sequacious and credulous easiness. Bp. 
Taylor. 
Orpheus could lead the savage race. 
And trees uprooted left their place. 
Sequacious of the lyre; 
Rut bright Cecilia rais’d the wonder higher: 
When to her organ vocal breath was giv’n, 
An angel heard and straight appear'd, 
Mistaking earth for heaven. Pry den. 
Ductile; pliant.-—In the greater bodies the forge was easy, 
the matter being ductile and sequacious, and obedient to 
the hand and stroke of the artificer, and apt to be drawn, 
formed, or moulded. Ray, 
SEQUA'CIOUSNESS, s. State of being sequacious.— 
That servility and sequaciousness of conscience. Bp. 
Taylor. 
SEQUA'CITY, s. [sequax, Lat.] Ductility; toughness. 
—Matter, whereof creatures are produced, hath a closeness, 
lentor, and sequacity. Bacon. —Act of following.—Liberty 
of judgment seemeth almost lost either in lazy or blind se¬ 
quacity of other men’s votes. Whitlock. 
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SEQUATCHEE, a river of the-United States, in Ten¬ 
nessee, which rises in Bledsoe county, runs south-west, 
passing through the western part of the Cherokee country, 
and flows into the Tennessee. 
SEQUATUR sub suo periculo, a writ that lies, when a 
summons ad warrantizandum is awarded, and the sheriff 
returns that the party hath nothing by which he may be 
summoned: then goes forth an alias and a pluries ; and if 
he comes not on the pluries, this writ shall issue. 
SE'QUEL, s. [sequels, Fr.; sequela, Lat.] Conclu¬ 
sion; succeeding part.-—-Consequence inferred.—Was he not 
a man of wisdom ? Yes, but he was poor : but was he not 
also successful? True, but still he was poor: grant this, 
and you cannot keep off that unavoidable sequel in the next 
verse, the poor man’s wisdom is despised. South. —Conse¬ 
quence; event. 
In these he put two weights, 
The sequel each of parting and of fight. Milton. 
What sequel is there in this argument ? An archdeacon 
is the chief deacon : ergo, he is only a deacon. Whit gift. 
SE'QUENCE, s. [sequence, old Fr., from sequor, Lat.] 
Order of succession. 
How art thou a king. 
But by fair sequence and succession? Shakspeare. 
The inevitable sequences of sin and punishment. Bp. 
Hall. —Series; arrangement; method. — The cause pro- 
ceedeth from a precedent sequence, and series of the seasons 
of the year. Bacon. 
SE'QUENT, adj. [sequent, old Fr.; sequens, Lat.] Fol¬ 
lowing; succeeding. 
Let my tryal be mine own confession: 
Immediate sentence then, and sequent death, 
Is all the grace I beg. Shakspeare. 
Either I am 
The forehorse in the team, or I am none 
That draw i’ the sequent trace. Beaum. and FI. 
There he dies, and leaves his race 
Growing into a nation; and now grown 
Suspected to a sequent king, who seeks 
To stop their overgrowth. Milton. 
Consequential. 
SE'QUENT, s. A follower. Not in use. —Here he hath 
framed a letter to a sequent of the stranger queen’s, which 
accidentally miscarried. Shakspeare. 
To SEQUE'STER, v. a. [sequestrer, Fr.; secrestar, 
Spanish; sequestro, low Lat.] To separate from others for 
the sake of privacy. 
To the which place a poor sequester'd stag. 
That from the hunter’s aim had ta’en a hurt. 
Did come to languish. Shakspeare. 
In shady bower. 
More sacred and sequester'd , though but feign'd. 
Pan or Sylvanus never slept. . Milton. 
To put aside; to remove.—Although I had wholly seques¬ 
tered my civil affairs, yet I set down, out of experience in 
business, and conversation in books, what I thought per¬ 
tinent to this affair. Bacon. —To withdraw; to segregate. 
—A thing as seasonable in grief as in joy, as decent being 
added unto actions of greatest weight and solemnity, as 
being used when most sequester themselves from action. 
Hooker. —To set aside from the use of the owner to that of 
others: as, his annuity is sequestered to pay his creditors.— 
To deprive of possessions.—-It was his taylor and his cook, 
his fine fashions and his French ragou’s, which sequestered 
him ; and, in a word, he came by his poverty as sinfully as 
some usually do by their riches. South. 
To SEQUE'STER, v. n. To withdraw; to retire.—To 
sequester out of the world into Atlantic and Eutopian 
politics, which can never be drawn into use, will not mend 
our condition. Milton. 
SEQUE'STRABLE, adj. Subject to privation.—Ca¬ 
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