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Septuagenarian
Septuagenarian Sep`tu*a*ge*na"ri*an, n.
A person who is seventy years of age; a septuagenary.
SeptuagenarySeptuagenary Sep`tu*ag"e*na*ry, a. [L. septuagenarius, fr.
septuageny seventy each; akin to septuaginta seventy, septem
seven. See Seven.]
Consisting of seventy; also, seventy years old. -- n. A
septuagenarian. Septuagesima
Septuagesima Sep`tu*a*ges"i*ma, n. [NL., fr. L. septuagesimus
the seventieth, fr. septuaginta seventy.] (Eccl.)
The third Sunday before Lent; -- so called because it is
about seventy days before Easter.
Septuagesimal
Septuagesimal Sep`tu*a*ges"i*mal, a.
Consisting of seventy days, years, etc.; reckoned by
seventies.
Our abridged and septuagesimal age. --Sir T.
Browne.
SeptuagintSeptuagint Sep"tu*a*gint, n. [From L. septuaginta seventy.]
A Greek version of the Old Testament; -- so called because it
was believed to be the work of seventy (or rather of
seventy-two) translators.
Note: The causes which produced it [the Septuagint], the
number and names of the translators, the times at which
different portions were translated, are all uncertain.
The only point in which all agree is that Alexandria
was the birthplace of the version. On one other point
there is a near agreement, namely, as to time, that the
version was made, or at least commenced, in the time of
the early Ptolemies, in the first half of the third
century b.c. --Dr. W. Smith (Bib. Dict.)
Septuagint chronology, the chronology founded upon the
dates of the Septuagint, which makes 1500 years more from
the creation to Abraham than the Hebrew Bible. Septuagint chronologySeptuagint Sep"tu*a*gint, n. [From L. septuaginta seventy.]
A Greek version of the Old Testament; -- so called because it
was believed to be the work of seventy (or rather of
seventy-two) translators.
Note: The causes which produced it [the Septuagint], the
number and names of the translators, the times at which
different portions were translated, are all uncertain.
The only point in which all agree is that Alexandria
was the birthplace of the version. On one other point
there is a near agreement, namely, as to time, that the
version was made, or at least commenced, in the time of
the early Ptolemies, in the first half of the third
century b.c. --Dr. W. Smith (Bib. Dict.)
Septuagint chronology, the chronology founded upon the
dates of the Septuagint, which makes 1500 years more from
the creation to Abraham than the Hebrew Bible.
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