One of the oldest lines of modern English verse is the so-called septenary (septenarius), having had a nearly continuous tradition from the twelfth-century Poema Morale down (in its divided form) to the present.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principles of English Versification] Reference

Hence, deriving the suggestion from the apparent septenary rest in nature, they taught that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Astral Worship] Reference

After the same manner a man is completed in the second septenary of years, and is capable of learning what is good and evil, and of discipline therein.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference

Heraclitus and the Stoics say, that men begin their completeness when the second septenary of years begins, about which time the seminal serum is emitted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference

The septenary division of time into weeks of seven days, although not universal, as has been generally supposed, was sufficiently so to indicate the influence of the number.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Symbolism of Freemasonry] Reference

One example is a ritual producing a specific type of energy (associated say which a specific sphere of the septenary) and then directing this energy to a certain geographical area.    From Wordnik.com.  [Satanism Exposed: The ONA Fake Org | Disinformation] Reference

Subsequently, septenary figures preoccupied Pico della Mirandola (Heptaplus), Giulio Camillo, John Dee, and Joachim Frizius, who wrote an influential treatise on Rosicrucianism in 1626.    From Wordnik.com.  [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference

The only much-used unequal couplet is the combination, now old-fashioned, of an alexandrine and a septenary, and called, from the number of syllables, Poulter's Measure, because, says Gascoigne (1575).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principles of English Versification] Reference

Any one can, however, see in them an undoubted reference to that septenary division which so universally prevailed throughout the ancient world, and the influence of which is still felt even in the common day life and observances of our time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Symbolism of Freemasonry] Reference

No number has ever been so universally in repute as the septenary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry] Reference

Senary applied to the physical man; the septenary to his spirit, 634-l.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry] Reference

The numerous applications of the septenary confirmed the ancient sages in the use of this symbol.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry] Reference

With Complin and Lauds, the liturgical day reached the sacred septenary, "septies in die laudem dixi tibi".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference

Now, as I have said, our puzzle may be solved at once by merely converting 1,000,000 dollars to the septenary scale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amusements in Mathematics] Reference

It is possible to think of the soul as a reincarnating entity, whether it be a monad, duad, triad, or septenary being.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reincarnation and the Law of Karma A Study of the Old-New World-Doctrine of Rebirth, and Spiritual Cause and Effect] Reference

The sages applied the senary to the physical man; while the septenary was, for them, the symbol of his immortal spirit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry] Reference

It is thus seen that no "trials" are necessary; by converting to the septenary scale of notation we go direct to the answer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amusements in Mathematics] Reference

Every sound ought to have a septenary relation to the planes of consciousness, and the differentiations of life, force and matter on each.    From Wordnik.com.  [AE in the Irish Theosophist] Reference

To reverse the operation, and convert 2,341 from the denary to the septenary scale, we divide it by 7, and get 334 and remainder 3; divide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amusements in Mathematics] Reference

Keep on dividing this number by 7 until there is nothing more left to divide, and the remainders will be found to be 11333311 which is 1,000,000 expressed in the septenary scale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amusements in Mathematics] Reference

A parenthetical section in the middle of the book, chs. 25-32, contains a group of prophecies against seven foreign nations, the septenary arrangement being apparently intentional.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference

But if a man said that he had 6,553 dollars in the septenary (or seven) scale of notation, you will find that this is precisely the same amount as 2,341 in our ordinary denary scale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amusements in Mathematics] Reference

The septenary division alone gives a reasonable theory consistent with the facts we have to deal with, and therefore, though it may seem elaborate, the student will do wisely to make himself familiar with it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death—and After?] Reference

And the year of our Saviour Christ's birth, being the three thousand nine hundred and forty-eighth of the world, was at the end of a sabbatical year, and the five hundred and sixty-fourth septenary of the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God.] Reference

The answer is given at once by converting 1,000,000 to the septenary scale, and it is on this subject of scales of notation that I propose to write a few words for the benefit of those who have never sufficiently considered the matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amusements in Mathematics] Reference

I took the only hint which the address gave: I inquired for hellebore, but they told me it was not now recognized, that the old notion of its value was quite obsolete, and that they had nothing which was considered a specific in senary or septenary cases.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)] Reference

Pantagruel, having writ his letters, sat down at table with him, and afterwards presented him with a large chain of gold, weighing eight hundred crowns, between whose septenary links some large diamonds, rubies, emeralds, turquoise stones, and unions were alternately set in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4] Reference

A naturalist, struck by a parallelism of this nature in any one class, by arbitrarily raising or sinking the value of the groups in other classes (and all our experience shows that this valuation has hitherto been arbitrary), could easily extend the parallelism over a wide range; and thus the septenary, quinary, quaternary, and ternary classifications have probably arisen.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition)] Reference

And in many places he uses the ternary, quinary, and septenary number, especially the number nine (I. vii.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference

The septenary festivals were.    From Wordnik.com.  [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference