Meaning of septimate | Babel Free

Definitions

Submit (someone or something) to septimation; reduce by one seventh.

transitive

Examples

“We may ſay, without the leaſt hyperbole, nature ſeptimates; art centeſimates us.”

“Arrange into sevens; septuplicate; septimate.”

“That regulation which is usually called the seventh or huftum…conveys to the Bengali rayat the same uncomfortable impression, which is usually connected with the idea of being ‘quartered’ or ‘decimated.’ When he sees that he is about to be ‘septimated,’ he makes every effort in his power to escape from his fate by flight, thereby risking the loss of all he possesses in the world.”

“It was during the cold spell of 1935 that influenza and other forms of sickness “septimated” the labour supply for the mines of Southern Rhodesia.”

CEFR level