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Se"pic (?), a. Of or pertaining to sepia; done in sepia; as, a sepic drawing.
Sep`i*da"ceous (?), a. (Zoöl.) Like or pertaining to the cuttlefishes of the genus Sepia.
Sep"i*ment (?), n. [L. sepimentum, saepimentum, from sepire, saepire, to hedge in.] Something that separates; a hedge; a fence. [R.] Bailey.
Se"pi*o*lite` (?), n. [Septa + -lite.] (Min.) Meerschaum. See Meerschaum.
Se"pi*o*stare` (?), n. [Sepia + Gr. &?;&?;&?; a bone.] (Zoöl.) The bone or shell of cuttlefish. See Illust. under Cuttlefish.
Se*pon" (#), n. See Supawn. [Local, U.S.]
Se*pose" (?), v. t. [L. pref se- aside + E. pose.] To set apart. [Obs.] Donne.
Se*pos"it (?), v. t. [L. sepositus, p. p. of seponere to set aside.] To set aside; to give up. [Obs.]
Sep`o*si"tion (&?;), n. [L. sepositio.] The act of setting aside, or of giving up. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.
Se"poy (?), n. [Per. siph, fr. siph an army. Cf. Spahi.] A native of India employed as a soldier in the service of a European power, esp. of Great Britain; an Oriental soldier disciplined in the European manner.
||Sep*pu"ku (?), n. Same as Hara-kiri.
Seppuku, or hara-kiri, also came into vogue.
W. E. Griffis.
Sep"sin (?), n. [Gr. &?;&?;&?; putrefaction.] (Physiol. Chem.) A soluble poison (ptomaine) present in putrid blood. It is also formed in the putrefaction of proteid matter in general.
||Sep"sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;&?;&?; putrefaction.] (Med.) The ||poisoning of the system by the introduction of putrescent material ||into the blood.
Sept (?), n. [A corruption of sect, n.] A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor; -- used especially of the ancient clans in Ireland.
The chief, struck by the illustration, asked at once to be baptized, and all his sept followed his example.
S. Lover.
||Sep*tæ"mi*a (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;&?;&?; putrid + &?;&?;&?; ||blood.] (Med.) Septicæmia.
Sep"tal (?), a. Of or pertaining to a septum or septa, as of a coral or a shell.
Sep"tane (?), n. [L. septem seven.] (Chem.) See Heptane. [R.]
Sep"tan`gle (?), n. [Septi- + angle.] (Geom.) A figure which has seven angles; a heptagon. [R.]
Sep*tan"gu*lar (?), a. Heptagonal.
||Sep*ta"ri*um (?), n.;pl. Septaria (#). [NL., fr. L. septum, saeptum, ||an inclosure, a partition, fr. sepire, saepire, to inclose.] (Geol.) ||A flattened concretionary nodule, usually of limestone, intersected ||within by cracks which are often filled with calcite, barite, or ||other minerals.
Sep"tate (?), a. [L. septum, saeptum, partition.] Divided by partition or partitions; having septa; as, a septate pod or shell.
Sep*tem"ber (?), n. [L., fr. septem seven, as being the seventh month of the Roman year, which began with March: cf. F. septembre. See Seven.] The ninth month of the year, containing thurty days.
Sep*tem"ber*er (?), n. A Setembrist. Carlyle.
Sep*tem"brist (?), n. [F. septembriste.] An agent in the massacres in Paris, committed in patriotic frenzy, on the 22d of September, 1792.
Sep*tem"flu*ous (?), a.[L. septemfluus; septem seven + fluere to flow.] Flowing sevenfold; divided into seven streams or currents. [R.] Fuller.
Sep*tem"par*tite (?), a. [L. septem seven + E. partite.] Divided nearly to the base into seven parts; as, a septempartite leaf.
Sep*tem"tri*oun (?), n. Septentrion. [Obs.]
||Sep*tem"vir (?), n.; pl. E. Septemvirs (#), L. Septemviri (#). [L. ||septemviri, pl.; septem seven + viri, pl. of vir man.] (Rom. Hist.) ||One of a board of seven men associated in some office.
Sep*tem"vi*rate (?), n.[L. septemviratus.] The office of septemvir; a government by septimvirs.
Sep"ten*a*ry (?), a. [L. septenairus, from septeni seven each, septem seven: cf. F. septénaire. See Seven. ] 1. Consisting of, or relating to, seven; as, a septenary number. I. Watts.
2. Lasting seven years; continuing seven years. "Septenary penance." Fuller.
Sep"ten*a*ry, n. The number seven. [R.] Holinshed.
Sep"ten*ate (?), a. [L. septeni seven each.] (Bot.) Having parts in sevens; heptamerous.
Sep*ten"nate (?), n. [F. septennat.] A period of seven years; as, the septennate during which the President of the French Republic holds office.
Sep*ten"ni*al (?), a. [L. septennium a period of seven years; septem seven + annus year. See Seven, and Annual.] 1. Lasting or continuing seven years; as, septennial parliaments.
2. Happening or returning once in every seven years; as, septennial elections in England.
Sep*ten"ni*al*ly, adv. Once in seven years.
Sep*ten"tri*al (?), a. Septentrional. Drayton.
||Sep*ten"tri*o (?), n. [L. See Septentrion.] (Astron.) The ||constellation Ursa Major.
Sep*ten"tri*on (?), n. [L. septentrio the northern regions, the north, fr. septentriones the seven stars near the north pole, called Charles's Wain, or the Great Bear, also those called the Little Bear; properly, the seven plow oxen; septem seven + trio, orig., a plow ox: cf. F. septentrion.] The north or northern regions. Shak.
Both East West, South and Septentrioun.
Chaucer.
{ Sep*ten"tri*on (?), Sep*ten"tri*on*al (?), } a. [L. septentrionalis: cf. F. septentrional.] Of or pertaining to the north; northern. "From cold septentrion blasts." Milton.
Sep*ten`tri*on*al"i*ty (?), n. Northerliness.
Sep*ten"tri*on*al*ly (?), adv. Northerly.
Sep*ten"tri*on*ate (?), v. i. To tend or point toward the north; to north. Sir T. Browne.
{ Sep*tet", Sep*tette" } (?), n. [From L. septem seven, like duet, from L. duo.] 1. A set of seven persons or objects; as, a septet of singers.
2. (Mus.) A musical composition for seven instruments or seven voices; -- called also septuor.
Sept"foil (?), n. [F. sept seven (L. septem) + E. foil leaf: cf. L. septifolium.] 1. (Bot.) A European herb, the tormentil. See Tormentil.
2. (Arch.) An ornamental foliation having seven lobes. Cf. Cinquefoil, Quarterfoil, and Trefoil.
3. (Eccl.Art.) A typical figure, consisting of seven equal segments of a circle, used to denote the gifts of the Holy Chost, the seven sacraments as recognized by the Roman Catholic Church, etc. [R.]
Sep"ti- (?), [L. septem seven.] A combining form meaning seven; as, septifolious, seven-leaved; septi-lateral, seven-sided.
Sep"tic (?), a. [Septi- + - ic.] (Math.) Of the seventh degree or order. -- n. (Alg.) A quantic of the seventh degree.
{ Sep"tic (?), Sep"tic*al (?), } a. [L. septicus, Gr. &?;&?;&?;&?;, fr. &?;&?;&?;&?; to make putrid: cf. F. septique.] Having power to promote putrefaction.
Sep"tic, n. A substance that promotes putrefaction.
||Sep`ti*cæ"mi*a (?), n. [NL., from Gr. &?;&?;&?; putrefactive + ||&?;&?;&?; blood.] (Med.) A poisoned condition of the blood produced ||by the absorption into it of septic or putrescent material; blood ||poisoning. It is marked by chills, fever, prostration, and ||inflammation of the different serous membranes and of the lungs, ||kidneys, and other organs.
Sep"tic*al*ly (?), adv. In a septic manner; in a manner tending to promote putrefaction.
Sep"ti*ci`dal (?), a. [Septum + L. caedere to cut: cf. F. septicide.] (Bot.) Dividing the partitions; -- said of a method of dehiscence in which a pod splits through the partitions and is divided into its component carpels.
Sep*tic"i*ty (?), n. [See Septic.] Tendency to putrefaction; septic quality.
Sep`ti*fa"ri*ous (?), a. [L. septifariam sevenfold. Cf. Bifarious.] (Bot.) Turned in seven different ways.
Sep*tif"er*ous (?), a. [Septum + -ferous: cf. F. septifère.] (Bot.) Bearing a partition; -- said of the valves of a capsule.
Sep*tif"er*ous, a. [Gr. &?;&?;&?; putrefied + -ferous.] Conveying putrid poison; as, the virulence of septiferous matter.
Sep*tif"lu*ous (?), a. [CF. Septemfluous.] Flowing in seven streams; septemfluous.
Sep`ti*fo"li*ous (?), a. [Septi- + L. folium leaf.] (Bot.) Having seven leaves.
Sep"ti*form (?), a. [Septum + -form.] Having the form of a septum.
Sep*tif"ra*gal (?), a. [Septum + L. frangere, fractum, to break.] (Bot.) Breaking from the partitions; -- said of a method of dehiscence in which the valves of a pod break away from the partitions, and these remain attached to the common axis.
Sep`ti*lat"er*al (?), a. [Septi- + lateral.] Having seven sides; as, a septilateral figure.
Sep*til"lion (?), n. [F. septilion, formed fr. L. septem seven, in imitation of million.] According to the French method of numeration (which is followed also in the United States), the number expressed by a unit with twenty-four ciphers annexed. According to the English method, the number expressed by a unit with forty-two ciphers annexed. See Numeration.
Sep"ti*mole (?), n. [L. septem seven.] (Mus.) A group of seven notes to be played in the time of four or six.
Sep*tin"su*lar (?), a. [Septi- + insular.] Consisting of seven islands; as, the septinsular republic of the Ionian Isles.
Sep"ti*syl`la*ble (?), n. [Septi- + syllable.] A word of seven syllables.
Sep*to"ic (?), a. [L. septem seven.] (Chem.) See Heptoic. [R.]
Sep`to*max"il*la*ry (?), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the nasal septum and the maxilla; situated in the region of these parts. -- n. A small bone between the nasal septum and the maxilla in many reptiles and amphibians.
Sep`tu*a*ge*na"ri*an (?), n. A person who is seventy years of age; a septuagenary.
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.
||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.
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Sep`tu*a*ges"i*mal (?), a. Consisting of seventy days, years, etc.; reckoned by seventies.
Our abridged and septuagesimal age.
Sir T. Browne.
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.
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.
Sep"tu*a*ry (?), n. [L. septem seven.] Something composed of seven; a week. [R.] Ash.
Sep"tu*late (?), a. [Dim. fr. septum.] (Bot.) Having imperfect or spurious septa.
||Sep"tu*lum (?), n.; pl. Septula (#). [NL., dim. of L. septum septum.] ||(Anat.) A little septum; a division between small cavities or parts.
||Sep"tum (?), n.; pl. Septa (#). [L. septum, saeptum, an inclosure, ||hedge, fence, fr. sepire, saepire, to hedge in, inclose.] 1. A wall ||separating two cavities; a partition; as, the nasal septum.
2. (Bot.) A partition that separates the cells of a fruit.
3. (Zoöl.) (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.
Sep"tu*or (?), n. [F.] (Mus.) A septet.
Sep"tu*ple (?), a. [LL. septuplus; cf. Gr. &?;&?;&?;&?;&?;:cf. F. septuple. Cf. Double, Quadruple.] Seven times as much; multiplied by seven; sevenfold.
Sep"tu*ple, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Septupled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Septupling (?).] To multiply by seven; to make sevenfold. Sir J. Herschel.
{ Sep"ul*cher, Sep"ul*chre } (?), n. [OE. sepulcre, OF. sepulcre, F. sépulcre, fr. L. sepulcrum, sepulchrum, fr. 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.
{ Sep"ul*cher, Sep"ul*chre } (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sepulchered (?) or Sepulchred (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. 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.
Se*pul"chral (?), a. [L. sepulcralis: cf. F. 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.
Sep"ul*ture (?), n. [F. sépulture, L. sepultura, fr. 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.
Se*qua"cious (?), a. [L. sequax, -acis, fr. 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.
Se*qua"cious*ness, n. Quality of being sequacious.
Se*quac"i*ty (?), n. [L. sequacitas.] Quality or state of being sequacious; sequaciousness. Bacon.
Se"quel (s"kwl), n. [L. sequela, fr. sequit to follow: cf. F. 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.
||Se*que"la (?), n.; pl. Sequelæ (#). [L., 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) (Med.) A morbid phenomenon left as the result of a disease; a disease resulting from another.
Se"quence (s"kwens), n. [F. séquence, L. sequentia, fr. 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.
Se"quent (?), a. [L. sequens, -entis, p. pr. 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.
Se"quent, n. 1. A follower. [R.] Shak.
2. That which follows as a result; a sequence.
Se*quen"tial (?), a. Succeeding or following in order. -- Se*quen"tial*ly, adv.
Se*ques"ter (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sequestered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Sequestering.] [F. séquestrer, L. 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. Cf. 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.
Se*ques"ter, v. i. 1. To withdraw; to retire. [Obs.]
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.
Se*ques"ter, n. 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. (Med.) Same as Sequestrum.
Se*ques"tered (?), a. Retired; secluded. "Sequestered scenes." Cowper.
Along the cool, sequestered vale of life.
Gray.
Se*ques"tra*ble (?), a. Capable of being sequestered; subject or liable to sequestration.
Se*ques"tral (?), a. (Med.) Of or pertaining to a sequestrum. Quian.
Se*ques"trate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sequestrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Sequestrating.] To sequester.
Seq`ues*tra"tion (?), n. [L. sequestratio: cf. F. 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. [Obs.] Boyle.
Seq"ues*tra`tor (?), n. [L., 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.
||Se*ques"trum (?), n.; pl. Sequestra (#). [NL. See Sequester.] (Med.) ||A portion of dead bone which becomes separated from the sound ||portion, as in necrosis.
Se"quin (?), n. [F. sequin, It. zecchino, from zecca the mint, fr. Ar. sekkah, sikkah, a die, a stamp. Cf. 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.]
Se*quoi"a (?), n. [NL. So called by Dr. Endlicher in honor of Sequoyah, who invented the Cherokee alphabet.] (Bot.) 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.
Se*quoi"ëne (?), n. (Chem.) A hydrocarbon (C13H10) obtained in white fluorescent crystals, in the distillation products of the needles of the California "big tree" (Sequoia gigantea).
Se*ragl"io (?), n. [It. serraglio, originally, an inclosure of palisades, afterwards also, a palace, seraglio (by confusion with Per. serïa a palace, an entirely different word), fr. serrare to shut, fr. LL. serra a bar for fastening doors, L. sera. See Serry, Series.] 1. An inclosure; a place of separation. [Obs.]
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.
||Se*ra"i (?), n. [Per. serï, or sarï, a palace, a king's court, a ||seraglio, an inn. Cf. Caravansary.] A palace; a seraglio; also, in ||the East, a place for the accommodation of travelers; a caravansary, ||or rest house.
Ser`al*bu"men (?), n. (Physiol. CHem.) Serum albumin.
||Se*rang" (?), n. [Per. sarhang a commander.] The boatswain of a ||Lascar or East Ondian crew.
||Se*ra"pe (?), n. [Sp. Amer. sarape.] A blanket or shawl worn as an ||outer garment by the Spanish Americans, as in Mexico.
Ser"aph (?), n.; pl. E. Seraphs (#), Heb. Seraphim (#). [Heb. serphim, pl.] 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 (Zoöl.), 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.
{ Se*raph"ic (?), Se*raph"ic*al (?), } a. [Cf. F. 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, adv. -- Se*raph"ic*al*ness, n.
Se*raph"i*cism (?), n. The character, quality, or state of a seraph; seraphicalness. [R.] Cudworth.
Ser"a*phim (?), n. The Hebrew plural of Seraph. Cf. Cherubim.
The double plural form seraphims is sometimes used, as in the King James version of the Bible, Isa. vi. 2 and 6.
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Ser`a*phi"na (?), n. [NL.] A seraphine.