septennial

A road ran over the desert yard to a city which, being a vassal, was about to make its septennial tribute.

They are nowadays elected at septennial elections among the registered commoners, two for the northern parishes, two for the southern.

Every seven years, a religious procession takes place in the so-called 'septennial festivities' in commemoration of the end of a drought in 1656.

Somers died on the day the Septennial Bill-which extended the maximum life of parliaments from three years to seven-passed the Commons.

The septennial re-roofing ceremony is listed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity as of 2009.

During the late Middle Ages the number of relics further increased and a septennial pilgrimage ('Heiligdomsvaart') was instigated, which attracted tens of thousands of pilgrims.

This new and obedient legislature, to which only nineteen liberals were returned, made itself into a septennial parliament, thus providing time, it was thought, to restore some part of the ancien regime.

Other contentious points were the Anti-Socialist Laws ("Sozialistengesetze"), the "Kulturkampf" against the Catholic Church and the septennial military budget ("Septennat").

And if it is not to be dissolvd before the End of its septennial Duration, is it not to be feard that before its Expiration there will be an End of Liberty.

However, one minister complained that "the mischief arising from the spreading of such a pernicious publication as 'The Age of Reason' was infinitely greater than any that could spring from limited suffrage and septennial parliaments" (other popular reform causes).Qtd.

Prior to the enactment of Magna Carta 1215, writs of assize had to be tried at Westminster or await trial at the septennial circuit of justices of eyre, but the great charter provided that land disputes should be tried by annual assizes.