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Origin and history of Septembrist

Septembrist(n.)

1798 in reference to French history, a participant in the massacre by the mob of the political prisoners in Paris, Sept. 2-5, 1792. In French, Septembriseur, hence English Septembriser (1797). Hence also septembrize "assassinate while in custody" (1793).

Roland writes indignant messages, in the name of Order, Humanity and the Law; but there is no Force at his disposal. Santerre's National Force seems lazy to rise : though he made requisitions, he says,—which always dispersed again. Nay did not we, with Advocate Maton's eyes, see "men in uniform" too, with their "sleeves bloody to the shoulder"? Pétion goes in tricolor scarf; speaks "the austere language of the law:" the killers give up, while he is there; when his back is turned recommence. [Carlyle, "The French Revolution"]

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September

"ninth month of the Roman year," late Old English Septembre, from Old French septembre, setembre, and directly from Latin September (also source of Old French Septembre, Spanish Setiembre, Italian Settembre, German September), from septem "seven" (see seven).

So called because it was the original seventh month of the old Roman calendar, which began the year in March; Julian calendar reform (46 B.C.E.) shifted the new year back two months. For -ber suffix, see December. The native names are Old English hærfestmonað ("harvest month"), haligmonað ("holy month"). By late 14c. as figurative of a later stage of life. Related: Septembral; Hawthorne has Septemberish. Septembrian as "belonging to September" is by 1800; earlier it was a noun, "one who believes that our Lord was born in September" (1640s); also see Septembrist.

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