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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 653 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SEPT , a See also:

clan, the See also:term generally applied to the tribes or families of See also:Ireland, used also sometimes as by See also:Sir H. See also:Maine (See also:Early See also:History of Institutions, 231) of the See also:Indian See also:joint undivided See also:family, the " combined descendants of an ancestor See also:long since dead." Wedgewood (Dict. of Eng. Etym.), quoted by See also:Skeat, takes the word as a corruption of " See also:sect " (q.v.), and cites from the See also:State Papers of 1536 and 1537, where secte and secte are used respectively. If so, the word must have been influenced by See also:Lat. saeptum, fence or enclosure (saepire, to enclose, saepes, hedge), a word which has been adopted as " septum " into scientific terminology for any See also:partition or See also:wall dividing two cavities—e.g. in See also:anatomy, of the partition between the nostrils, septum naris, or that between the right and See also:left ventricles of the See also:heart, septum cordis.

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