Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun etc. Obsolete spellings of seven, seventeen, etc.

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  • noun Obsolete form of seven.

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Examples

  • No, 100% 4 srs, if levarge gets as popular as Buffy/Harry potter/Twatlight or battlestar i will pop a st.julian's sparkling juice beverage just for you because that would be asesum especially if you get the seaven seasons as well.

    LEVERAGE: Mirabile dictu and The Bank Job Rogers 2008

  • The Sunne was now somewhat farre declined, and the heates extremity well worne away: when the Tales of the seaven Ladies and three Gentlemen were thus finished, whereupon their Queene pleasantly said.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Now concerning his banishment, and wandring seaven yeeres in exile thorow the world; you cannot denie, but that you were the onely occasion thereof.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Which when I have sent you, the Moone being then in her full, and your selfe stript starke naked: immediately after your first sleepe, seaven times you must bathe your selfe with it in a swift running River.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Afterward, naked as you are, you must climbe up upon some tree, or else upon an uninhabited house top, where standing dreadlesse of any perill, and turning your face to the North, with the Image in your hand, seaven times you must speake such wordes, as I will deliver to you in writing.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Each of them was very affable and well conditioned, and walked abroad (for their greater comfort in such a time of tribulation) to try if they could meete with their fayre friends, who (happily) might all three be among these seaven, and the rest kinne unto them in one degree or other.

    The Decameron 2004

  • No truely, holy Father, there is no likelyhood of his abstaining; for since I made my complaint to you, he belike taking it in evil part, to bee contraried in his wanton humours, hath (meerely in despight) walked seaven times in a day by my doore, whereas formerly he never used it above once or twice.

    The Decameron 2004

  • His Sonne, being named Lewes, and now about nine yeares old, his Daughter called Violenta, and aged seaven yeares, did both observe their fathers direction, as afterward it did sufficiently appeare.

    The Decameron 2004

  • So, "he continues," that thirtie pence of this money amounteth not but altogether to the summe of eighteen poundes seaven shillings and sixe-pence of our money, and seemeth a very small summe for buying

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 563, August 25, 1832 Various

  • These are they that cry fire and fagot, away with them, not worthy to live, their very mercies are cruelty: especially in their owne cause, they heat the fornace seaven times hotter then in Gods.

    A Coal From The Altar, To Kindle The Holy Fire of Zeale In a Sermon Preached at a Generall Visitation at Ipswich Samuel Ward

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