This is one of the oldest houses in the country and it has a rich history. In fact, the author of The House of the Seven Gables (Nathaniel Hawthorne) lived in the house with his cousin for a short time, but never when the house actually had 7 gables. We climbed the...
Septate is a morphological term defined in biology in two different instances: 1  In human biology, it is used to describe a divide. For example, a septate uterus would be a divided uterus. 2  In mycology, it is used to describe the condition of spores or hyphae that possess or lack a septa to divide cells.  septate.
The sept system was an integral part of Gaelic society and survived and was even propagated by the Norman invaders. The system did not survive the English invasion and colonisation of the seventeenth century however, and it became a disadvantage to have a Gaelic sounding name.