septuagesimal

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsɛptjuəˈd͡ʒɛsɪməl/

Adjective

septuagesimal (not comparable)

1. Consisting of seventy days, years, etc.; reckoned by seventies.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     our abridged and septuagesimal ages

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “septuagesimal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)