Terms vs Septimation - What's the difference?
terms | septimation |
(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,
* 1853 , William Jackman [aut.] and I. Chamberlayne [ed.], The Australian Captive , chapter XVII,
As nouns the difference between terms and septimation
is that terms is while septimation is (rare) the loss, seizure, destruction, or killing of one seventh (of something or of a group).septimation
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- 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.
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- 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.