Definition of "septentrion" []

• Obsolete Northern regions; the north. (noun)

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• "Sometimes our ancestors called them the Seven Oxen, the "oxen of the celestial pastures," from which the word septentrion (_septem triones_, seven oxen of labor) is derived."
• "Also in the head of that sea of Galilee, toward the septentrion is a strong castle and an high that hight Saphor."
• "And Ind is divided in three principal parts; that is, the more that is a full hot country; and Ind the less, that is a full attempre country, that stretcheth to the land of Media; and the three part toward the septentrion is full cold, so that, for pure cold and continual frost, the water becometh crystal."