Septulate Sep"tu·late adjective [ Dim. from septum .] (Botany) Having imperfect or spurious septa.

Septulum Sep"tu·lum noun ; plural Septula . [ New Latin , dim. of Latin septum septum.] (Anat.) A little septum; a division between small cavities or parts.

Septum Sep"tum noun ; plural Septa . [ Latin septum , saeptum , an inclosure, hedge, fence, from sepire , saepire , to hedge in, inclose.] 1. A wall separating two cavities; a partition; as, the nasal septum . 2. (Botany) A partition that separates the cells of a fruit. 3. (Zoology) (a) One of the radial calcareous plates of a coral. (b) One of the transverse partitions dividing the shell of a mollusk, or of a rhizopod, into several chambers. See Illust. under Nautilus . (c) One of the transverse partitions dividing the body cavity of an annelid.

Septuor Sep"tu·or noun [ French] (Mus.) A septet.

Septuple Sep"tu·ple adjective [ Late Latin septuplus ; confer Greek ...............:cf. French septuple . Confer Double , Quadruple .] Seven times as much; multiplied by seven; sevenfold.

Septuple Sep"tu·ple transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Septupled ; present participle & verbal noun Septupling .] To multiply by seven; to make sevenfold. Sir J. Herschel.

Septæmia Sep·tæ"mi·a noun [ New Latin , from Greek ......... putrid + ......... blood.] (Medicine) Septicæmia.

Sepulcher, Sepulchre Sep"ul·cher, Sep"ul·chre noun [ Middle English sepulcre , Old French sepulcre, French sépulcre , from Latin sepulcrum , sepulchrum , from sepelire to bury.] The place in which the dead body of a human being is interred, or a place set apart for that purpose; a grave; a tomb.

The stony entrance of this sepulcher .

Shak.

The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulcher .

John xx. 1. A whited sepulcher . Fig.: Any person who is fair outwardly but unclean or vile within. See Matt. xxiii. 27.

Sepulcher, Sepulchre Sep"ul·cher, Sep"ul·chre transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Sepulchered or Sepulchred ; present participle & verbal noun Sepulchering or Sepulchring ] To bury; to inter; to entomb; as, obscurely sepulchered .

And so sepulchered in such pomp dost lie
That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.

Milton.

Sepulchral Se·pul"chral adjective [ Latin sepulcralis : confer French sépulcral .] 1. Of or pertaining to burial, to the grave, or to monuments erected to the memory of the dead; as, a sepulchral stone; a sepulchral inscription. 2. Unnaturally low and grave; hollow in tone; -- said of sound, especially of the voice.

This exaggerated dulling of the voice . . . giving what is commonly called a sepulchral tone.

H. Sweet.

Sepulture Sep"ul·ture noun [ French sépulture , Latin sepultura , from sepelire , sepultum , to bury.] 1. The act of depositing the dead body of a human being in the grave; burial; interment.

Where we may royal sepulture prepare.

Dryden. 2. A sepulcher; a grave; a place of burial.

Drunkeness that is the horrible sepulture of man's reason.

Chaucer.

Sequacious Se·qua"cious adjective [ Latin sequax , -acis , from suquit to follow. See Sue to follow. ] 1. Inclined to follow a leader; following; attendant.

Trees uprooted left their place,
Sequacious of the lyre.

Dryden. 2. Hence, ductile; malleable; pliant; manageable.

In the greater bodies the forge was easy, the matter being ductile and sequacious .

Ray. 3. Having or observing logical sequence; logically consistent and rigorous; consecutive in development or transition of thought.

The scheme of pantheistic omniscience so prevalent among the sequacious thinkers of the day.

Sir W. Hamilton.

Milton was not an extensive or discursive thinker, as Shakespeare was; for the motions of his mind were slow, solemn, and sequacious , like those of the planets.

De Quincey.

Sequaciousness Se·qua"cious·ness noun Quality of being sequacious.

Sequacity Se·quac"i·ty noun [ Latin sequacitas .] Quality or state of being sequacious; sequaciousness. Bacon.

Sequel Se"quel (sē"kwĕl) noun [ Latin sequela , from sequit to follow: confer French séquelle a following. See Sue to follow.] 1. That which follows; a succeeding part; continuation; as, the sequel of a man's advantures or history.

O, let me say no more!
Gather the sequel by that went before.

Shak. 2. Consequence; event; effect; result; as, let the sun cease, fail, or swerve, and the sequel would be ruin. 3. Conclusion; inference. [ R.] Whitgift.

Sequela Se·que"la noun ; plural Sequelæ . [ Latin , a follower, a result, from sequit to follow.] One who, or that which, follows. Specifically: (a) An adherent, or a band or sect of adherents. "Coleridge and his sequela ." G. P. Marsh. (b) That which follows as the logical result of reasoning; inference; conclusion; suggestion.

Sequelæ , or thoughts suggested by the preceding aphorisms.

Coleridge. (c) (Medicine) A morbid phenomenon left as the result of a disease; a disease resulting from another.

Sequence Se"quence (sē"kw e ns) noun [ French séquence , Latin sequentia , from sequens . See Sequent .] 1. The state of being sequent; succession; order of following; arrangement.

How art thou a king
But by fair sequence and succession?

Shak.

Sequence and series of the seasons of the year.

Bacon. 2. That which follows or succeeds as an effect; sequel; consequence; result.

The inevitable sequences of sin and punishment.

Bp. Hall. 3. (Philos.) Simple succession, or the coming after in time, without asserting or implying causative energy; as, the reactions of chemical agents may be conceived as merely invariable sequences . 4. (Mus.) (a) Any succession of chords (or harmonic phrase) rising or falling by the regular diatonic degrees in the same scale; a succession of similar harmonic steps. (b) A melodic phrase or passage successively repeated one tone higher; a rosalia. 5. (R.C.Ch.) A hymn introduced in the Mass on certain festival days, and recited or sung immediately before the gospel, and after the gradual or introit, whence the name. Bp. Fitzpatrick.

Originally the sequence was called a Prose, because its early form was rhythmical prose.

Shipley. 6. (Card Playing) (a) (Whist) Three or more cards of the same suit in immediately consecutive order of value; as, ace, king, and queen; or knave, ten, nine, and eight. (b) (Poker) All five cards, of a hand, in consecutive order as to value, but not necessarily of the same suit; when of one suit, it is called a sequence flush .

Sequent Se"quent adjective [ Latin sequens , -entis , present participle of sequi to follow. See Sue to follow.] 1. Following; succeeding; in continuance.

What to this was sequent
Thou knowest already.

Shak. 2. Following as an effect; consequent.

Sequent Se"quent noun 1. A follower. [ R.] Shak. 2. That which follows as a result; a sequence.

Sequential Se·quen"tial adjective Succeeding or following in order. -- Se*quen"tial*ly , adverb

Sequester Se·ques"ter transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Sequestered ; present participle & verbal noun Sequestering .] [ French séquestrer , Latin sequestrare to give up for safe keeping, from sequester a depositary or trustee in whose hands the thing contested was placed until the dispute was settled. Confer Sequestrate .] 1. (Law) To separate from the owner for a time; to take from parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indifferent person; to seize or take possession of, as property belonging to another, and hold it till the profits have paid the demand for which it is taken, or till the owner has performed the decree of court, or clears himself of contempt; in international law, to confiscate.

Formerly the goods of a defendant in chancery were, in the last resort, sequestered and detained to enforce the decrees of the court. And now the profits of a benefice are sequestered to pay the debts of ecclesiastics.

Blackstone. 2. To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.

It was his tailor and his cook, his fine fashions and his French ragouts, which sequestered him.

South. 3. To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.

I had wholly sequestered my civil affairss.

Bacon. 4. To cause to retire or withdraw into obscurity; to seclude; to withdraw; -- often used reflexively.

When men most sequester themselves from action.

Hooker.

A love and desire to sequester a man's self for a higher conversation.

Bacon.

Sequester Se·ques"ter intransitive verb 1. To withdraw; to retire. [ Obsolete]

To sequester out of the world into Atlantic and Utopian politics.

Milton. 2. (Law) To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.

Sequester Se·ques"ter noun 1. Sequestration; separation. [ R.] 2. (Law) A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a mediator; an umpire or referee. Bouvier. 3. (Medicine) Same as Sequestrum .

Sequestered Se·ques"tered adjective Retired; secluded. " Sequestered scenes." Cowper.

Along the cool, sequestered vale of life.

Gray.

Sequestrable Se·ques"tra·ble adjective Capable of being sequestered; subject or liable to sequestration.

Sequestral Se·ques"tral adjective (Medicine) Of or pertaining to a sequestrum. Quian.

Sequestrate Se·ques"trate transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Sequestrated ; present participle & verbal noun Sequestrating .] To sequester.

Sequestration Seq`ues·tra"tion noun [ Latin sequestratio : confer French séquestration .] 1. (a) (Civil & Com. Law) The act of separating, or setting aside, a thing in controversy from the possession of both the parties that contend for it, to be delivered to the one adjudged entitled to it. It may be voluntary or involuntary. (b) (Chancery) A prerogative process empowering certain commissioners to take and hold a defendant's property and receive the rents and profits thereof, until he clears himself of a contempt or performs a decree of the court. (c) (Eccl. Law) A kind of execution for a rent, as in the case of a beneficed clerk, of the profits of a benefice, till he shall have satisfied some debt established by decree; the gathering up of the fruits of a benefice during a vacancy, for the use of the next incumbent; the disposing of the goods, by the ordinary, of one who is dead, whose estate no man will meddle with. Craig. Tomlins. Wharton. (d) (Internat. Law) The seizure of the property of an individual for the use of the state; particularly applied to the seizure, by a belligerent power, of debts due from its subjects to the enemy. Burrill. 2. The state of being separated or set aside; separation; retirement; seclusion from society.

Since Henry Monmouth first began to reign, . . .
This loathsome sequestration have I had.

Shak. 3. Disunion; disjunction. [ Obsolete] Boyle.

Sequestrator Seq"ues·tra`tor noun [ Latin , one that hinders or impedes.] (Law) (a) One who sequesters property, or takes the possession of it for a time, to satisfy a demand out of its rents or profits. (b) One to whom the keeping of sequestered property is committed.

Sequestrum Se·ques"trum noun ; plural Sequestra . [ New Latin See Sequester .] (Medicine) A portion of dead bone which becomes separated from the sound portion, as in necrosis.

Sequin Se"quin noun [ French sequin , Italian zecchino , from zecca the mint, from Arabic sekkah , sikkah , a die, a stamp. Confer Zechin .] An old gold coin of Italy and Turkey. It was first struck at Venice about the end of the 13th century, and afterward in the other Italian cities, and by the Levant trade was introduced into Turkey. It is worth about 9s. 3d. sterling, or about $2.25. The different kinds vary somewhat in value. [ Written also chequin , and zequin .]

Sequoia Se·quoi"a noun [ New Latin So called by Dr. Endlicher in honor of Sequoyah , who invented the Cherokee alphabet.] (Botany) A genus of coniferous trees, consisting of two species, Sequoia Washingtoniana , syn. S. gigantea , the "big tree" of California, and S. sempervirens , the redwood, both of which attain an immense height.

Sequoiëne Se·quoi"ëne noun (Chemistry) A hydrocarbon (C ₁₃ H ₁₀ ) obtained in white fluorescent crystals, in the distillation products of the needles of the California "big tree" ( Sequoia gigantea ).

Sérac Sé`rac" noun [ French (in the Alps), orig., a kind of solid cheese.] A pinnacle of ice among the crevasses of a glacier; also, one of the blocks into which a glacier breaks on a steep grade.

Seraglio Se·ragl"io noun [ Italian serraglio , originally, an inclosure of palisades, afterwards also, a palace, seraglio (by confusion with Persian serāï a a palace, an entirely different word), from serrare to shut, from Late Latin serra a bar for fastening doors, Latin sera . See Serry , Series .] 1. An inclosure; a place of separation. [ Obsolete]

I went to the Ghetto, where the Jews dwell as in a suburb, by themselves. I passed by the piazza Judea, where their seraglio begins.

Evelyn. 2. The palace of the Grand Seignior, or Turkish sultan, at Constantinople, inhabited by the sultan himself, and all the officers and dependents of his court. In it are also kept the females of the harem. 3. A harem; a place for keeping wives or concubines; sometimes, loosely, a place of licentious pleasure; a house of debauchery.

Serai Se·ra"i noun [ Persian serāï , or sarā ï, a palace, a king's court, a seraglio, an inn. Confer Caravansary .] A palace; a seraglio; also, in the East, a place for the accommodation of travelers; a caravansary, or rest house.

Seralbumen Ser`al·bu"men noun (Physiol. CHem.) Serum albumin.

Serang Se·rang" noun [ Persian sarhang a commander.] The boatswain of a Lascar or East Ondian crew.

Serape Se·ra"pe noun [ Spanish Amer. sarape .] A blanket or shawl worn as an outer garment by the Spanish Americans, as in Mexico.

Seraph Ser"aph noun ; plural English Seraphs , Hebrew Seraphim . [ Hebrew serāphim , plural] One of an order of celestial beings, each having three pairs of wings. In ecclesiastical art and in poetry, a seraph is represented as one of a class of angels. Isa. vi. 2.

As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns,
As the rapt seraph that adores and burns.

Pope. Seraph moth (Zoology) , any one of numerous species of geometrid moths of the genus Lobophora , having the hind wings deeply bilobed, so that they seem to have six wings.

Seraphic, Seraphical Se·raph"ic, Se·raph"ic·al adjective [ Confer French séraphique .] Of or pertaining to a seraph; becoming, or suitable to, a seraph; angelic; sublime; pure; refined. " Seraphic arms and trophies." Milton. " Seraphical fervor." Jer. Taylor. -- Se*raph"ic*al*ly , adverb -- Se*raph"ic*al*ness , noun

Seraphicism Se·raph"i·cism noun The character, quality, or state of a seraph; seraphicalness. [ R.] Cudworth.

Seraphim Ser"a·phim noun The Hebrew plural of Seraph . Confer Cherubim . » The double plural form seraphims is sometimes used, as in the King James version of the Bible, Isa. vi. 2 and 6.

Seraphina Ser`a·phi"na noun [ New Latin ] A seraphine.

Seraphine Ser"a·phine noun [ From Seraph .] (Mus.) A wind instrument whose sounding parts are reeds, consisting of a thin tongue of brass playing freely through a slot in a plate. It has a case, like a piano, and is played by means of a similar keybord, the bellows being worked by the foot. The melodeon is a portable variety of this instrument.

Serapis Se·ra"pis noun [ Latin , from Greek ........., ..........] (Myth.) An Egyptian deity, at first a symbol of the Nile, and so of fertility; later, one of the divinities of the lower world. His worship was introduced into Greece and Rome.

Seraskier Se·ras"kier noun [ Turk., from Persian ser head, chief + Arabic 'asker an army.] A general or commander of land forces in the Turkish empire; especially, the commander-in-chief of minister of war.

Seraskierate Se·ras"kier·ate noun The office or authority of a seraskier.

Serbonian Ser·bo"ni·an adjective Relating to the lake of Serbonis in Egypt, which by reason of the sand blowing into it had a deceptive appearance of being solid land, but was a bog.

A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog . . .
Where armies whole have sunk.

Milton.

Sere Sere adjective Dry; withered. Same as Sear .

But with its sound it shook the sails
That were so thin and sere .

Coleridge.