Usage examples (14)

• Now however a septennial bill was trans - mitted, and returned altered into an octennial one.
• Of late these shackles, if I mistake not, have been broken; and octennial parliaments have besides been established.
• Now an octennial cycle is the shortest period at the end of which sun and moon really mark time together after overlapping, so to say, throughout the whole of the interval.
• At length, in the session of 1767, "the Septennial Bill," as it was called, was returned from England, changed to octennial, and with this alteration it passed into law,...