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centurial, a.|sɛnˈtjʊərɪəl|
[ad. L. centuriāl-is, f. centuria: see century and -al1.]
1. Of or pertaining to a century (senses 1, 2).
1610Healey St. Aug. City of God 81 The kings being casheered out of Rome by the great Centuriall Parliament. 1656J. Harrington Oceana (1700) 185 The Suffrage in the Centurial Assemblys. 1851D. Wilson Preh. Ann. (1863) II. iii. ii. 42 Legionary or centurial tablets and other Roman inscriptions. 1880Athenæum 11 Dec. 781.
2. Of or pertaining to a century or hundred years.
1864Lowell Fireside Trav. 71 Quadrangles mossy with centurial associations. 1877Bp. S. Butcher Eccl. Calendar xxx. 36 In any two consecutive centurial years, the 1st of January in the one year will be 6 week-days apart from January 1 in the other. |