unseven

English

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “unseven”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Etymology

un- +‎ seven

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʌnˈsɛvən/

Verb

unseven (third-person singular simple present unsevens, present participle unsevening, simple past and past participle unsevened)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To render other than seven; to make to be no longer seven.
    • 1655, Thomas Fuller, edited by James Nichols, The Church History of Britain, […], new edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [James Nichols] for Thomas Tegg and Son, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
      to un-seven the sacraments of the church of Rome
      The spelling has been modernized.

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