septuagesima

[Latin septuagesimus seventieth, from septuaginta =seventy.] The third Sunday before Lent, so called because it is about seventy days before Easter. sěp-tu-a-gěs'-1-mal, a. [SEPTUAGESIMA.] Consisting of seventy or of seventy years. sep-tu-a-gint, subst. & adj. (Lat. septuaginta =seventy.] A. As substantive: Scripture : A Greek version of the Hebrew or Old Testament Scriptures; the oldest one made into any language. A still extant letter referred to by Joseph us, Jerome, and Eusebius, purports to be from a certain Aristeas, officer at the court of Ptolemy Philadelphus. It states that after the king had founded the great Alexandrian library, he wished to have in it a copy of the Jewish sacred books. By the advice of his chief librarian, Demetrius Phalareus, he sent to the high priest at Jerusalem, requesting him to send six translators from each tribe, Bot.: Bearing septa. sep-tif-lu-ous, adj. [Pref. sept i- (1), and Lat. fluo to flow.] Flowing in seven streams. [SEP. TEMFLUOUS.) sep-ti-fō-li-ous, a. [ Lat.sept i- (1), and folium =a leaf.] Having seven leaves. sep-ti-form, adj. [Pref. sept i- (2), and form a = form.] Resembling a septum or partition.