Sept
[sept]
Definition
(n.) A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor; -- used especially of the ancient clans in Ireland.
Editor: Tracy
Definition
n. in Ireland a subdivision of a tribe: an enclosure a railing.—adj. Sep′tal belonging to a sept: partitional.
Edited by Flo
Examples
- Never done nothink to get myself into no trouble, 'sept in not moving on and the inkwhich. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I remember it was written from Weymouth, and dated Sept. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Gracechurch street, Sept. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Its application to the bicycle was made in 1889 by Dunlop, United States patent No. 435,995, Sept. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It is to be found in the French patent to M. Progin (Xavier), of Marseilles, No. 3,748, Sept. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The great epoch of the sewing machine, however, begins with Elias Howe and the sewing machine patented by him Sept. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I never was in no other trouble at all, sir, 'sept not knowin' nothink and starwation. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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