Sep`to*max"il*la*ry (?), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the nasal
septum and the maxilla; situated in the region of these parts. -- n. A
small bone between the nasal septum and the maxilla in many reptiles
and amphibians.
Sep`tu*a*ge*na"ri*an (?), n. A person who is seventy years of age; a
septuagenary.
Sep`tu*ag"e*na*ry (?), a. [L. septuagenarius, fr. septuageny seventy
each; akin to septuaginta seventy, septem seven. See Seven.] Consisting
of seventy; also, seventy years old. -- n. A septuagenarian.
||Sep`tu*a*ges"i*ma (?), n. [NL., fr. L. septuagesimus the seventieth,
||fr. septuaginta seventy.] (Eccl.) The third Sunday before Lent; -- so
||called because it is about seventy days before Easter.
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Sep`tu*a*ges"i*mal (?), a. Consisting of seventy days, years, etc.;
reckoned by seventies.
Our abridged and septuagesimal age.
Sir T. Browne.
Sep"tu*a*gint (?), n. [From L. septuaginta seventy.] A Greek version of
the Old Testament; -- so called because it was believed to be the work
of seventy (or rather of seventy-two) translators.
The causes which produced it [the Septuagint], the number and names of
the translators, the times at which different portions were translated,
are all uncertain. The only point in which all agree is that Alexandria
was the birthplace of the version. On one other point there is a near
agreement, namely, as to time, that the version was made, or at least
commenced, in the time of the early Ptolemies, in the first half of the
third century b.c. Dr. W. Smith (Bib. Dict.)
Septuagint chronology, the chronology founded upon the dates of the
Septuagint, which makes 1500 years more from the creation to Abraham
than the Hebrew Bible.
Sep"tu*a*ry (?), n. [L. septem seven.] Something composed of seven; a
week. [R.] Ash.
Sep"tu*late (?), a. [Dim. fr. septum.] (Bot.) Having imperfect or
spurious septa.
||Sep"tu*lum (?), n.; pl. Septula (#). [NL., dim. of L. septum septum.]
||(Anat.) A little septum; a division between small cavities or parts.
||Sep"tum (?), n.; pl. Septa (#). [L. septum, saeptum, an inclosure,
||hedge, fence, fr. sepire, saepire, to hedge in, inclose.] 1. A wall
||separating two cavities; a partition; as, the nasal septum.