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  1. Pertaining to the number nine.
  2. An aggregate of nine; nine collectively. He implieth climacterical years, that is septenaries, and novenaries set down by the bare observation of numbers. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., iv. 11.

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  1. from Latin novenarius, consisting of nine, from novenus, nine each: see novene.
 

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