Helen Fenton

Centuriate: Definition and part of speech

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Centuriate

  1. v. t. To divide into hundreds.
  2. a. Pertaining to, or divided into, centuries or hundreds.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Centurist: Definition and part of speech

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Centurist

  1. n. An historian who distinguishes time by centuries, esp. one of those who wrote the “Magdeburg Centuries.” See under Century.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Centurion: Definition and part of speech

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Centurion

  1. n. A military officer who commanded a minor division of the Roman army; a captain of a century.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Century: Definition and part of speech

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Century

  1. n. One of sixty companies into which a legion of the army was divided. It was Commanded by a centurion.
  2. n. A hundred; as, a century of sonnets; an aggregate of a hundred things.
  3. n. A period of a hundred years; as, this event took place over two centuries ago.
  4. n. A division of the Roman people formed according to their property, for the purpose of voting for civil officers.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.