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coeval, a. and n.|kəʊˈiːvəl|
Also 7–8 coæval(l, 7 coevall.
[f. L. coæv-us (see coeve) + -al1.]
A. adj. Const. with, † to.
1. Of equal antiquity, of contemporaneous origin, going back to the same date.
1622–62Heylin Cosmogr. (1682) Pref., Episcopacy was coæval with the Church it self. 1690Locke Hum. Und. ii. i. (1695) 49, I conceive that Ideas in the Understanding, are coeval with Sensation. 1722Wollaston Relig. Nat. ix. 208 Coeval to mankind itself, and born with it. 1877J. D. Chambers Div. Worship 153 This custom of so standing is coeval with Christianity in England.
2. Of the same age, equally old, having existed or lived the same number of years.
a1700Dryden Fables, Meleager, Those Trees..Coeval with the World, a venerable Sight. 1742Fielding Jos. Andrews iii. i, Mrs. Towwouse is coeval with our lawyer. 1811L. M. Hawkins C'tess & Gertr. 62 There was, in a rising generation, something..which she had not perceived in that co-eval with herself.
3. Living or existing at the same time or in the same age of the world; contemporary.
1704Hearne Duct. Hist. (1714) I. 403 They all flourish'd between the Fortieth and Fiftieth Olympiads, and must have been Co-eval. 1823Month. Mag. LV. 516 The captivity of Zedekiah, which was coeval with the death of Hophra. 1862Dana Man. Geol. 583 An ancient tribe which was coeval with some of the extinct Mammals.
4. Of coincident duration, lasting to the same age or time.
1742Young Nt. Th. vii. 86 Were men to live coëval with the sun, The patriarch-pupil would be learning still. 1801Southey Thalaba ii. xiv, The Boy, coeval with whose life Yon magic Fire must burn. 1886Froude Oceana ii. 24 Ovid..claims at the close of his ‘Metamorphoses’ to have built a monument which will be coeval with mankind.
B. n.
1. One who is of the same age or standing in point of time with another or others.
1656Blount Glossogr., Coevals, that are of the same age. 1739Cibber Apol. (1756) I. 51 With my coævals as well as with the millions since born. 1823Lamb Elia (1860) 84 He is forlorn among his coevals; his juniors cannot be his friends.
2. A person (or thing) belonging to the same period or age of the world; a contemporary.
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. ii. §14 It may seeme they [scyences] are ordained by God to be Coevalls, that is, to meete in one age. 1644Bulwer Chiron. 6 Hortensius, a long time Prince of Orators, afterwards Coevall and Competitour with Cicero. 1784Cowper Task iii. 142 The man, of whom His own coevals took but little note. 1870Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. i. (1873) 347 Neither his precepts nor his practice influenced any one of his greater coevals.
3. One who lives to the same point of time with another.
1878E. White Life in Christ i. i. 5 The relation of man to the Deity as his destined coeval. |