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centennial, a. (n.)|sɛnˈtɛnɪəl|
[f. (after biennial, etc.) on L. type *centennium (f. centum a hundred + annus year) + -al1.]
A. adj. Of or relating to a space of one hundred years, or to its completion; of a hundred years' standing; a hundred years old; completing a hundred years; of or relating to the hundredth anniversary. Centennial State (U.S.): appellation of Colorado, admitted as a state in the centennial year of the existence of the United States (1876).
a1797Mason Palinodia x. (R.) To her alone I rais'd my strain, On her centennial day. 1816Monthly Rev. LXXX. 304 The deciduous willow, and the centennial oak. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. i. i. ii, The blossom is so brief; as of some centennial cactus-flower, which after a century of waiting shines out for hours. 1872Longfellow Div. Trag. iii. iv, This ancient olive-tree, that spreads its broad centennial branches. 1874Motley Barneveld II. xiii. 104 With a centennial hatred of Spain. 1881Geikie in Macm. Mag. XLIV. 233 (Wyoming) But for the protrusion of this wedge the ‘Centennial State’ would have been a quiet pastoral or agricultural territory. 1882Hinsdale Garfield & Educ. ii. 411 That I would meet her in the Centennial summer. 1940E. H. McCormick Lett. & Art in N.Z. p. viii, Some readers will have seen..the Centennial Exhibition of New Zealand Art. Ibid. vii. 194 Government patronage of artists has more recently marked the celebration of New Zealand's Centennial. 1961Spectator 17 Mar. 382/1 Many English newspapers..are now referring to the Civil War ‘centennial’.
B. as n. A hundredth anniversary or its celebration; a centenary.
1876W. D. Howells in Atlantic Monthly July 92/1 The Centennial is what every one calls the great fair now open at Philadelphia. 1876Daily News 9 Nov. 5/2 America has been of late very much centennialised—that is the word in use now since the great celebration of this year. Centennials have been got up all over the States.
Hence cenˈtennialize v. nonce-wd.: see quot. 1876 above. |