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Seventh vs Septimation - What's the difference?

seventh | septimation |

As nouns the difference between seventh and septimation

is that seventh is the person or thing in the seventh position while septimation is (rare) the loss, seizure, destruction, or killing of one seventh (of something or of a group).

As an adjective seventh

is the ordinal form of the number seven.

seventh

English

(wikipedia seventh)

Adjective

(head)
  • The ordinal form of the number seven.

    • Synonyms

    * 7th, 7th; (in names of monarchs and popes ) VII

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The person or thing in the seventh position.
  • One of seven equal parts of a whole.
  • (music) A tone of the seventh degree from a given tone, the interval between two such tones, or the two tones sounding in unison.

    • septimation

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • (rare) The loss, seizure, destruction, or killing of one seventh (of something or of a group).
  • * 1844 , J.A.T., “Observations on the Genius of the Christian Sabbath, as Illustrated in the Life of Wilberforce” in The Oberlin Evangelist VI, ? 5, page 40
    • To Wilberforce ‘the Sabbath was a delight’ […] O how often, even among those who most punctiliously observe it, does it seem […] an unwelcome exaction, a sort of septimation of time, as grievous as church decimations of property.
  • * 1853 , William Jackman [aut.] and I. Chamberlayne [ed.], The Australian Captive , chapter XVII, page 206
    • We had gone into the enemy’s ground with seven hundred warriors?—?a little over one hundred of whom were missing when we left it?—?as, at that time, we could hardly muster six hundred. This septimation of our men was accompanied by a proportionate riddance of such encumbrances of the expedition as wore the shape of women and little ones.

    Coordinate terms

    * (decimation equivalents)