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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SEPT, n. [L. prosapia; or Heb. See Class Sb. No. 23.] A clan, race or family, proceeding from a common progrnitor; used of the races or families in Ireland.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the month following August and preceding October [syn: September, Sep, Sept]
2: people descended from a common ancestor; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower" [syn: family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: perhaps from Latin septum, saeptum enclosure, fold — more at septum Date: 1517 a branch of a family; especially clan

Merriam Webster's

abbreviation September

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a clan, esp. in Ireland. Etymology: prob. alt. of SECT

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Tribe, clan, race, family, generation.

Moby Thesaurus

affiliation, animal kingdom, apparentation, birth, blood, bloodline, bracket, branch, breed, brood, caste, category, clan, class, common ancestry, consanguinity, deme, derivation, descent, direct line, distaff side, division, estate, extraction, family, female line, filiation, folk, gens, grade, group, grouping, head, heading, house, kin, kind, label, level, line, line of descent, lineage, male line, matriclan, nation, order, patriclan, people, phratry, phyle, phylum, pigeonhole, plant kingdom, position, predicament, race, rank, rating, rubric, section, seed, set, side, spear side, species, spindle side, station, status, stem, stirps, stock, strain, stratum, subdivision, subgroup, suborder, succession, sword side, title, totem, tribe