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Definition of centuries

Centuries
Century Cen"tu*ry, n.; pl. Centuries. [L. centuria (in senses 1 & 3), fr. centum a hundred: cf. F. centurie. See Cent.] 1. A hundred; as, a century of sonnets; an aggregate of a hundred things. [Archaic.] And on it said a century of prayers. --Shak. 2. A period of a hundred years; as, this event took place over two centuries ago. Note: Century, in the reckoning of time, although often used in a general way of any series of hundred consecutive years (as, a century of temperance work), usually signifies a division of the Christian era, consisting of a period of one hundred years ending with the hundredth year from which it is named; as, the first century (a. d. 1-100 inclusive); the seventh century (a.d. 601-700); the eighteenth century (a.d. 1701-1800). With words or phrases connecting it with some other system of chronology it is used of similar division of those eras; as, the first century of Rome (A.U.C. 1-100). 3. (Rom. Antiq.) (a) A division of the Roman people formed according to their property, for the purpose of voting for civil officers. (b) One of sixty companies into which a legion of the army was divided. It was Commanded by a centurion. Century plant (Bot.), the Agave Americana, formerly supposed to flower but once in a century; -- hence the name. See Agave. The Magdeburg Centuries, an ecclesiastical history of the first thirteen centuries, arranged in thirteen volumes, compiled in the 16th century by Protestant scholars at Magdeburg.

Meaning of centurie from wikipedia

- works : centurie. leipzig 1716, 2. centurie leipzig 1717, 3. centurie. leipzig 1719, new edition leipzig 1738 (2 volumes) einleitung in die
- la centurie sébastien faure ,composed of french and italians, include saïl mohamed, jean mayol, marcel montagut, simone weil and george
- during this time he also produced manuel d'ornithologie (1828), traité d'ornithologie (1831), centurie zoologique (1830–32) and
- director (from 1947-1953 she was even mayor of benouville) who also led a resistance group of the gmo belonging to the réseau 'centurie'.
- centurie des plantes de l'amérique du nord (montpellier, 1820) flore d'Égypte (5 vols., paris, 1824) centurie des plantes d'afrique (paris,
- in 1875 shakespeare's centurie of prayse came out, a definitive collection of allusions to shakespeare and his works between 1592 and 1692
- rené duchez was a member of the caen group of the « centurie » network, which was itself a branch of the ocm (organisation civile et
- centurie xxxii , year 1885 , journal revue mycologique toulouse , volume 7 , page 18 , language french , url http://biodiversitylibrary.
- thomas watson , hecatompathia; or, passionate centurie of love. other : lodovico castelvetro , le rime del petrarca breuemente sposte per
- title séconde centurie de plantes cellulaires exotiques nouvelles, décade x , journal annales des sciences naturelles, botanique , year
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