Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Sept"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sept \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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Sept
n 1: the month following August and preceding October [syn: {September},
{Sep}, {Sept}]
2: people descended from a common ancestor; "his family had
lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower" [syn: {family},
{family line}, {folk}, {kinfolk}, {kinsfolk}, {phratry}]
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