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SEPT , a clan, the term
Maine
joint undivided family, the " combined descendants of an ancestor long since dead." Wedgewood (Dict. of Eng. Etym.), quoted by Skeat, takes the word as a corruption of " sect " (q.v.), and cites from the State Papers of 1536 and 1537, where secte and secte are used respectively. If so, the word must have been influenced by Lat. saeptum, fence or enclosure (saepire, to enclose, saepes, hedge), a word which has been adopted as " septum " into scientific terminology for any partition
wall
partition
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