septenary

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Some authors pretend to assume that this well marked septenary system has reference to the Pleiades or Seven stars.

From Vestiges of the Mayas or, Facts Tending to Prove that Communications and Intimate Relations Must Have Existed, in very Remote Times, Between the Inhabitants of Mayab and Those of Asia and Africa by Le Plongeon, Augustus

The Egyptians made use of a septenary system in the arrangement of the grand gallery in the center of the great pyramid.

From Vestiges of the Mayas or, Facts Tending to Prove that Communications and Intimate Relations Must Have Existed, in very Remote Times, Between the Inhabitants of Mayab and Those of Asia and Africa by Le Plongeon, Augustus

These are the literal meanings; the mystic meanings are very different, and among other things denote the septenary prismatic colours and other septenaries in nature.

From Simon Magus by Mead, George Robert Stow

Behind each figure are rows of glyphs and in the upper corner to the left of the spectator is the septenary series headed by the initial-sign.

From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Nuttall, Zelia

But on account of its customary pause after the fourth foot, it very early broke into two short lines of four and three stresses each, and thus the septenary couplet became the ballad stanza.

From The Principles of English Versification by Baum, Paull Franklin