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Septentrionall, adj. Also: septemtrional(l, (septemtrionalie). [ME and e.m.E. septemtrional (Chaucer), septentrionalle (c1400), septentrional (c1440), F. septentrional (14th c. in Larousse), L. septentrionāl-; Septentrion(e n.] Northern. Also absol. as n. 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. 195.
Quhilk mouit fra the plague septentrionall 1530 Lynd. Test. Pap. 751.
Septemtrionall 1549 Compl. 48/33.
The pole artic, boreal, or septemtrional 1549 Compl. 50/27.
The septemtrional solstice callit the tropic of Cancer 1549 Compl. 61/20.
The thrid cardinal vynd is callit septemtrional or borial 1549 Compl. 52/32. 1568 Skeyne Descr. Pest 21.
Oppinand dure & vindois towart the septentrionall partis c1600 Medical Recipes 88b.
This signe [sc. Cancer] is septemtrionalie that is of the north pertisabsol. c1552 Lynd. Mon. 165.
The pole artick, wrsis, and sterris all Quhilk situate ar in the septemtrionall