coetaneousadj.
/kəʊiːˈteɪnɪəs/ = coeval adj. and n. in all senses. Const. with, †to, unto.
1. Coming into existence or arising at the same time; of contemporary or simultaneous origin and antiquity.
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the world > time > relative time > simultaneity or contemporaneousness > [adjective] > coeval or going back to the same date
contemporanean1575
coetaneous1608
coetanean1625
contemporaneous1645
coetany1649
coeval1652
coeve1659
coevous1660
contemporary1663
connascent1805
connate1819
isochronous1895
1608 Bp. J. King Serm. 5 Nov. 38 A parallele to this, coetaneous..in time.
1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie i. sig. L5 Corrivals with the Jesuites..and almost coætaneous [printed conætaneous] in point of time, are the Oratorians.
a1711 T. Ken Edmund in Wks. (1721) II. v. 134 The sick man reviving by degrees Feels coetaneous Pleasure, Cure, and ease.
1833 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 345 The Pyrenees and other coetaneous chains, such as the northern Apennines.
1853 J. W. Gibbs Philol. Stud. (1857) 48 The gradual, not coetaneous, development of the kinds of words or parts of speech.
2. Of the same age, equal in age.
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the world > time > relative time > simultaneity or contemporaneousness > [adjective] > of the same age or equally old
even-oldOE
co-aged1577
coequal1607
coetaneous1649
equaevousa1657
coeval1700
equaeval1867
1649 Bp. J. Hall Resol. & Decisions iii. i. 216 We being but of yesterday, they coetaneous with the world and time it selfe.
a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) iii. 86 Anticipate the Virtues of Age... So may'st thou be coetaneous unto thy Elders, and a Father unto thy contemporaries.
1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc vii. 459 Then he would sit Beneath the coetaneous oak.
3. Existing or living at the same time; contemporary.
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the world > time > relative time > simultaneity or contemporaneousness > [adjective]
altogether?c1400
concurrent1495
contemporana1500
unison1582
coincident1598
coetaneal1614
coactivea1616
contemporal1621
synchronisticalc1624
coetanean1625
coetaneous1649
coinstantanean1652
synchronical1652
simultal1654
contemporary1656
contemporaneous1659
simultaneousa1660
coevous1660
synchronal1660
coexistent1662
implicit1662
synchronous1669
coexistinga1676
synchronistic1685
coeval1714
contemporany1721
synchronizinga1727
joint1765
coinstantaneous1768
consentaneous1775
coinciding1786
conterminating1805
synchronic1833
coincidental1845
parallel1859
homochronous1876
monochronic1905
co-occurring1951
co-occurrent1954
1649 F. Roberts Clavis Bibliorum (ed. 2) 332 That land seems not to have received its name of Uz coetaneous to Abraham.
1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Pharmaceut. Shop ii, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Xxxx Some of his coætaneous Medicks.
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. i. 315 Two generations past of mortals born In Pylus, coëtaneous with himself.
1841–4 R. W. Emerson Exper. in Ess. (1885) II. 361 Bear..with this coetaneous growth of the parts.
4. Of equal duration, coextensive in duration.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > simultaneity or contemporaneousness > [adjective] > coeval or lasting to the same time
contemporaneous1645
coetaneous1655
coeval1744
conterminous1885
1655 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 1st Pt. 349 Our troubles and our lives are coetaneous, live and die together.
1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 249 To ascribe a coetaneous being of the world with God, is to make it God.
1836 W. S. Landor Pericles & Aspasia II. 197 Little of life is remaining, but my happiness will be coetaneous with it.
Derivatives
coeˈtaneously adv.
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the world > time > relative time > simultaneity or contemporaneousness > [adverb]
on (or in) one sitheeOE
togethersc1175
togetherc1200
at once?c1225
at one shiftc1325
jointly1362
at one strokec1374
with that ilkec1390
at one shipea1400
withc1440
at a timec1485
at (in) one (an) instant1509
all at a shove1555
pari passu1567
in (also at, with) one breath1590
in that ilkec1590
with the same1603
in one1616
concurrently1648
concurringly1650
contemporarily1669
simultaneously1675
synchronistically1684
coevallya1711
in (also with) the same breath1721
synchronically1749
at a slap1753
synchronously1793
contemporaneously1794
coinstantaneously1807
coetaneouslya1817
consentaneously1817
at one or a sweep1834
coincidentally1837
at the very nonce1855
one time1873
coincidently1875
in parallel1969
real time1993
a1817 T. Dwight Theol. (1818) I. xiv. 226 Whatever exists in the divine Mind exists co-etaneously, and co-eternally, with all other things which exist in it.
coeˈtaneousness n.
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the world > time > relative time > simultaneity or contemporaneousness > [noun] > coevality or equality in age
coetaneity1621
coevity1641
coevality1644
coevousness1660
coetaneousness1727
1727–31 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II. Coetaneousness, the being of the same age with.
1848 R. W. Hamilton Disq. Sabbath i. 15 It derives all its authority of proof out of its coëtaneousness.
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