Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SEP-TI'CI-DAL, a. [L. septum, a partition, and cædo, to cut or divide.]

A septicidal dehiscence of a pericarp, is that which takes place between the lamins of the dissepiment. – Lindley.

SEP-TIC'I-TY, n.

Tendency to putrefaction. – Fourcroy.

SEP-TI-FA'RI-OUS, a.

Having seven different ways.

SEP-TIF'ER-OUS, a. [L. septum and fero.]

Bearing septa. [See Septum.]

SEP-TIF'LU-OUS, a.

Flowing in seven streams.

SEP-TI-FO'LI-OUS, a.

Having seven leaves.

SEP'TI-FORM, a.

Having seven forms.

SEP-TIF'RA-GAL, a. [L. septum, a partition, and frango, to break.]

A septifragal dehiscence of a pericarp occurs, when the dissepiments adhere to the axis, and separate from the valves.

SEP-TI-LAT'ER-AL, a. [L. septem, seven, and latus, side.]

Having seven sides; as, a septilateral figure. Brown.

SEP-TIL'LION, n.

The product of a million involved to the seventh power.

SEP-TIN'SU-LAR, a. [L. septem, seven, and insula, isle.]

Consisting of seven isles; as, the septinsular republic of the Ionian isles. – Quart. Rev.

SEP'TON, n. [Gr. σηπω, to putrefy.]

That which promotes putrefaction.

SEP-TU-AG'EN-A-RY, a. [Fr. septuagénaire; L. septuagenarius, from septuaginta, seventy.]

Consisting of seventy. – Brown.

SEP-TU-AG'EN-A-RY, n.

A person seventy years of age.

SEP-TU-A-GES'I-MA, n. [L. septuagesimus, seventieth.]

The third Sunday before Lent, or before Quadragesima Sunday, supposed to be so called because it is about seventy days before Easter. – Encyc.

SEP-TU-A-GES'I-MAL, a. [supra.]

Consisting of seventy. Our abridged and septuagesimal age. – Brown.

SEP'TU-A-GINT, a.

Pertaining to the Septuagint; contained in the Greek copy of the Old Testament. The Septuagint chronology makes fifteen hundred years more from the creation to Abraham, than the present Hebrew copies of the Bible. – Encyc.

SEP'TU-A-GINT, n. [L. septuaginta, seventy; septem, seven, and some word signifying ten.]

A Greek version of the Old Testament, so called because it was the work of seventy, or rather of seventy-two interpreters. This translation from the Hebrew is supposed to have been made in the reign and by the order of Ptolemy Philadelphus, king of Egypt, about two hundred and seventy or eighty years before the birth of Christ. Encyc. [Dr. Campbell supposes this version was so called because it was approved by the Sanhedrim.].

SEP'TU-A-RY, n. [L. septem, seven.]

Something composed of seven; a week. [Little used.] Ash. Cole.

SEP'TUM, n. [plur. Septa. L.]

1. In botany, a partition that separates the cells of the fruit.
2. In anatomy, a partition which separates two cavities.

SEP'TU-PLE, a. [Low L. septuplex; septem, seven, and plico, to fold.]

Seven-fold; seven times as much.

SEP'UL-CHER, n. [Fr. sepulchre; Sp. and Port. sepulcro; It. sepolcro; from L. sepulchrum, from sepelio, to bury, which seems to be formed with a prefix on the Goth. filhan, to bury.]

A grave; a tomb; the place in which the dead body of a human being is interred, or a place destined for that purpose. Among the Jews, sepulchers were often excavations in rocks. – Is. xxii. Matth. xxvii.

SEP'UL-CHER, v.t.

To bury; to inter; to entomb; as, obscurely sepulchered. – Prior.

SEP'UL-CHER-ED, a.

Deposited in a sepulcher.

SE-PUL'CHRAL, a. [L. sepulchralis, from sepulchrum.]

Pertaining to burial, to the grave, or to monuments erected to the memory of the dead; as, a sepulchral stone; a sepulchral statue; a sepulchral inscription. Milton.