Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Once in seven years.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Once in seven years.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb Once in every
seven years .
Etymologies
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septennial + -ly
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Examples
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The insured for life participate septennially; in the profits realised.
The Economist Volume 1, No. 3 Various 1832
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