centennializev.
/sɛnˈtɛnɪəlʌɪz/, /s(ə)nˈtɛnɪəlʌɪz/, U.S. /sɛnˈtɛniəˌlaɪz/, /sənˈtɛniəˌlaɪz/ Chiefly U.S. Now somewhat rare.
transitive. To mark the centenary of; = centenarize v. Formerly also intransitive: †to celebrate a centenary (obsolete).
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1873 Frank Leslie's Illustr. Newspaper 16 Aug. 367/3 Woodford will be 100 years old on the 26th, and proposes to centennialize appropriately.
1875 Ohio Farmer 16 Oct. 246/3 1775, with its Lexington and Concord and Bunker Hill, is as worthy to be centennialized as 1776.
1888 Hamilton (Ohio) Daily Democrat 17 Apr. Let us ‘Centennialize’.
1909 Ironwood (Mich.) Times 9 Oct. 2/5 Every nation in the civilized world apparently can find in the record of 1809 something to ‘centennialize’ this year.
1965 Jrnl. Farm Econ. 47 1259 The Homestead Act we centennialized three summers ago.
1999 N.Y. Times 27 June ii. 1/2 Earlier in the decade, Mozart and Schubert were lionized, in honor of whatever birth or death dates could conveniently be centennialized.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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