centenaryadj.n.

Brit.

/sɛnˈtiːn(ə)ri/,

/s(ə)nˈtiːn(ə)ri/,

/sɛnˈtɛn(ə)ri/,

/s(ə)nˈtɛn(ə)ri/, U.S.

/sɛnˈtɛnəri/,

/ˈsɛntəˌnɛri/

Forms: late Middle English 1600s– centenary, late Middle English–1600s centenarie, 1500s centenaire, 1600s centinary.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin centēnārius.

Etymology: < classical Latin centēnārius that is or contains a hundred, in post-classical Latin also lasting a hundred years (4th or 5th cent. in Jerome), relating to the division of a county called a hundred (hundred n. and adj. 5a) (11th or 12th cent.), a hundred years old (from 13th cent. in British sources) < centēnī a hundred each (see centaine n.) + -ārius -ary suffix¹. Compare Middle French, French centenaire (adjective) of or relating to a hundred (c1370), one hundred years old (1539), that weighs a hundred pounds (1614; rare), (noun) person who lives to be one hundred years old (1798), one hundredth anniversary (1867).Specific senses. In sense B. 1 partly after Anglo-Norman centener, Anglo-Norman and Middle French centenier centurion (see centenier n.), and partly after post-classical Latin centenarius centurion (4th cent.: see below). In senses B. 2, B. 4, B. 5, and B. 6 after post-classical Latin centenarius group of a hundred (people or things) (Vulgate, with reference to a group of people; from 16th cent. in work titles, with reference to a group of treatises or chapters), person who lives to be one hundred years old (Vulgate), (in Frankish contexts) officer administering justice in a hundred (frequently from 7th cent. in continental sources), (in Anglo-Saxon contexts) officer in charge of a hundred (12th cent in British sources), period of one hundred years (from early 15th cent. in British sources in centenarius annorum ‘centenary of years’), use as noun of masculine of classical Latin centēnārius , adjective. In sense B. 3 after classical Latin centēnārium (neuter) weight of a hundred pounds, use as noun of neuter of classical Latin centēnārius , adjective; compare earlier centner n., which ultimately derives from the same Latin etymon. Diachronic variation in pronunciation. N.E.D. (1889) gives a pronunciation with first-syllable stress but notes that some contemporary speakers placed the main stress on the antepenultimate syllable. Pronunciations with /ɛ/ in this antepenultimate syllable probably reflect association with centennium n.

A. adj.

†1. Of or relating to the number 100 or a multiple thereof; of or relating to hundreds (as opposed to tens, units, etc.). Cf. centesimal adj. 2. Obsolete.The exact contextual meaning in quot. c1451 is unclear, although it may be an allusion to the hundredfold reward promised in Mark 10:29–30.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > hundred and over > [adjective] > hundred

hundredc975

centenaryc1451

c1451 J. Capgrave Life St. Gilbert (1910) 78 (MED) Be-cause þe noumbir centenarie is applied as for a special reward both to prelates and to maydenes, þerfor hath þis man for þoo too þis special reward.

1604 G. Downame Lect. XV. Psalme 171 The Romans also reduced the principall to the centenarie number.

a1646 J. Gregory Posthuma (1649) 82 The Numbers for the most part increasing by a Centenarie accession.

1768 E. Buys New & Compl. Dict. Terms Art I Centenary, belonging to an Hundred.

1824 R. Heber Jrnl. 8 Aug. in Narr. Journey Upper Provinces India (1828) I. ix. 202 The centenary and millesimal way in which the Hindoos express themselves.

1909 S. A. Barrett in Putnam Anniv. Vol. 403 While Cayapa has a strict centenary system above 100, Quichua carries the hundreds only as far as 1,000.

a. Occurring every hundred years; relating to or marking a hundredth anniversary. Cf. centennial adj. 2b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > particular time > an anniversary > [adjective] > of a specific anniversary

jubilar1613

centenary1620

jubilean1624

centenarious1727

tercentenary1844

semi-centennial1859

quatercentenary1877

quincentenary1878

tricentenary1882

tricentennial1883

quincentennial1884

quingentenary1884

tercentennial1884

octocentenary1888

octocentennial1889

septcentenary1889

quinquagenary1933

quatercentennial1937

quasquicentennial1962

the world > time > period > year > [adjective] > occurring every specific number of years

quinquennal1532

quinquennial1601

five-yearly1619

centenary1620

septennial1640

triannual1640

triennial1642

septennary1644

sexennial1646

trieterical1646

novennial1656

octennial1656

trieteric1656

quinquennalian1692

quadrenniala1700

biennial1750

sexennary1753

lustral1781

centennial1797

quaternal1813

sextennial1814

septendecennial1834

septemdecenary1843

undecennarya1847

bicentenary1862

bicentennial1883

quadricentennial1889

trigintennial1894

twelve-yearly1906

vigintennial1921

1620 W. Loe Merchant Reall v. 30 Which yeare of Iubile was wont to be euery fiftith yeare, but nowe in the popes Ephod (Vtilitatis gratia) it is thought meete to be euery fiue, & twentith yeare, & euery centenary yeare.

1647 T. Fuller Good Thoughts in Worse Times i. xx. 45 Centenary yeares return'd but seldome.

1790 A. Duncan Hist. Revol. 1688 Advt. to Rdr. p. iii This short Essay was at first composed for the 5th November 1788, the centenary Anniversary appointed by the General Assembly to commemorate the happy Revolution.

1830 J. H. Monk Life R. Bentley viii. 149 The University of Frankfort..having resolved to celebrate the centenary anniversary of its foundation with secular solemnities, invited various other Universities.

1897 Dict. National Biogr. LI. 105/1 They published..a Centenary edition..in 1870–1.

1905 Musical Times 1 Oct. 657/1 This, the centenary year of Trafalgar and of Nelson's death.

1960 Times 19 Feb. 5/6 An even shorter centenary study of Mahler—it is not intended to be much more than an extra-special programme note to a recital.

2003 Art Q. Spring 17/1 The Art Fund has decided to devote its centenary appeal to securing this extraordinary painting for the nation.

†b. Of or relating to a period of a hundred years; lasting for a hundred years; of a hundred years' duration. Cf. centennial adj. 1. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > period > year > [adjective] > of or relating to specific number of years > of a century

centenary1688

centennialc1720

centesimal1754

centurial1756

centenarial1821

1688 Answer Talon's Plea 30 The Centinary possession, as they call it, or the enjoyment for many Ages can make no prescription against Sovereignty.

1701 R. Fleming Disc. Several Subjects I. p. lxviii This Year leads us down to a new Centenary Revolution.

1820 H. Fuseli Lect. Painting II. iv. 32 During the course of nearly a centenary practice.

a1856 H. Miller Testimony of Rocks (1857) x. 410 Dividing the total thickness of the bed by the centenary elevation.

1911 Bibelot 17 256 When The Lay of the Last Minstrel..and..Harold the Dauntless..have come to their full centenary term of existence, they will find readers and will be reprinted.

†3. Of or relating to the administrative unit known as a hundred (hundred n. and adj. 5a). Cf. sense B. 4. Obsolete. historical. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > an administrative division of territory > [adjective] > relating to a hundred

centuriate1676

centenary1837

hundredal1862

1837 F. Palgrave Merchant & Friar ii. 63 Marco ascertained that they were the ‘sworn centenary deputies’, a phrase by which I suppose he means the jurors who answered for and represented the several Hundreds.

B. n.

†1. An officer in command of approximately a hundred soldiers. Cf. centenier n. 1b. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > [noun] > of 100

centuriona1382

under-captain1442

centenaryc1453

centeniera1460

petty captainc1475

hundredera1557

c1453 (c1437) Brut (Harl. 53) 540 (MED) Sir Iohn Ward, knyght, with x Centenaries and lti men of Armes.

a1460 Knyghthode & Bataile (Pembr. Cambr. 243) l. 523 (MED) The centenaryes [L. primae centuriae] thervppon shal picche Her pavilons.

1653 B. Parsons tr. Vegetius De Re Militari ii. viii, in Romane Centurion i. 7 They were Centurions who had the charge of euery band of an hundred, who are now called Centenaries [L. centenarii].

†a. A period of one hundred years; a century. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > period > year > [noun] > period of specific number of years > a century

secle?1533

siecle?1533

age1587

centenary1591

century1591

hundreda1656

cent.1687

centennium1828

1591 T. Barne Serm. sig. B In the infancy of the Church sprang forth Cerinthus and Saturninus, in the second centenarie issued forth Carpocrates and Montanus.

1602 W. Watson tr. E. Pasquier Iesuites Catech. i. x. f. 29 Both the one and the other, were borne in one centenary of yeeres [Fr. centaine d'ans].

1627 G. Hakewill Apologie i. iv. 49 If we should allow but one inch of decrease in the growth of men for every Centenary.

1725 B. Marshall Chronol. Treat. Seventy Weeks Daniel 78 The 98th year was the last sabbatical Year in the first centenary of years of 70 Weeks of Years.

1865 A. De Morgan Budget of Paradoxes (1872) 11 [The editorial system] has grown up in the last centenary—a word I may use to signify the hundred years now ending, and to avoid the ambiguity of century.

1884 Birmingham Weekly Post 6 Dec. 3/4 Mr. John Hogben..on Sunday completed his centenary.

1918 Illinois Catholic Hist. Rev. Oct. 269 We must not only revive the history of the last centenary..we must prepare to transmit the history of the new centenary that has begun.

b. The hundredth anniversary of an event, occurrence, etc.; a celebration of the passing of a century.Now the usual sense.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > particular time > an anniversary > [noun] > specific anniversaries

jubileec1386

quinquagenary1588

centenary1661

millennium1664

secular1706

coming of age1788

centennial1791

tricentenary1846

tercentenary1855

quinquennial1857

ter-millenary1864

sexcentenary1865

semi-centenary1870

bicentenary1872

septcentenary1873

quincentenary1877

sesquicentennial1880

quadricentennial1882

bicentennial1883

quatercentenary1883

tricentennial1883

tercentennial1884

quincentennial1885

octocentenary1888

quadrennial1890

quingentenary1892

octingentenary1893

ruby anniversary1893

semi-jubilee1893

septingentenary1893

millennial1896

millenary1897

quadringenary1905

quingenary1911

bimillenary1961

sesquicentenary1961

quasquicentennial1962

nongenary1966

octocentennial1994

1661 W. Howell Inst. Gen. Hist. iii. ix. 661 The Second of the Centenaries should have been celebrated in the 405 year.

1736 J. Green Acct. Maronites viii, in Journey Aleppo to Damascus 173 When the Jesuits celebrated the Centenary of their Institution in the Roman College, they did not fail to place the Pictures of these learned Maronites, among those of the illustrious Men for Piety and Learning.

1790 Ann. Reg. 1788 Chron. 220/1 Among the clubs of London who celebrated the centenary of the glorious revolution.

1839 T. Jackson (title) The centenary of Wesleyan Methodism.

1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 20 June 3/2 The [Handel] festival is one full year before its time, owing to the present rage for centenaries. This is the second centenary of Handel's birth.

1924 C. R. Cammell (title) For the centenary of the death of Lord Byron. Verses addressed to the Fathers of the Armenian Mekhitarist Convent at the Isle of S. Lazzaro.

1961 Economist 30 Dec. 1270/1 The Working Men's Club and Institute Union achieves its centenary next year.

2014 Guardian 15 July 7/5 One of the art commissions marking the centenary of the first world war.

3. A unit of weight equal to one hundred pounds, esp. such a unit used in the ancient Greek and Roman world. Cf. hundredweight n. Chiefly (now only) historical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > [noun] > unit or denomination of weight > pound > one hundred pounds

centenary1598

cental1858

1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres v. 134 300 Centenaires of lead.

1656 tr. J. A. Comenius Latinæ Linguæ Janua Reserata: Gate Lat. Tongue Unlocked liv. §536 A hundred pound, make a Centenary, or hundred-pound waight.

1712 Perquisite-Monger 7 The Loan of only ten Gold Centenaries.

1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. liii. 499 Their pay..computed at thirty-four centenaries of gold.

1857 G. Finlay Greece under Romans (ed. 2) App. ii. 544 Large sums were reckoned in centenaries, or hundred pounds-weight of gold or silver bullion.

2008 Iran & Caucasus 12 9 It is worthy to note that in 505, after the conclusion of truce, Byzantium paid Shahinshah Kavad eleven centenaries (i.e. nearly 360 kg.) of gold.

†4. historical (a) With reference to Frankish and Carolingian administration: an official having responsibility for the administration of local justice. Cf. centgrave n. (b). (b) A bailiff or officer in charge of an English hundred; = hundreder n. 1. Obsolete.It is unclear to what extent there was any similarity between the Anglo-Saxon hundred-man and the officials referred to as centenarius in the Salic Law and other early Germanic law codes.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > office > holder of office > magistrate > chief magistrate of a district > [noun] > hundreder

hundred-mana1000

hundreder1455

centenary1616

centurion1618

centenier1646

centgrave1647

hundredary1700

1616 P. Simson Short Compend Hist. First Ten Persecutions III. ix. 204 Ciuill Iudges ought to judge righteously..and let their Officiars, Vicars, and Centenaries bee righteous men.

1685 R. Brady Compl. Hist. Eng. 79 The Centenary, Hundredary, or chief Officer of the Hundred or Wapentach, was called Aldermannus Hundredi, sive Wapentachii.

1700 H. Chauncy Hist. Antiq. Herts. 26 Every Hundred was govern'd by a particular Officer, called a Centenary, or a Hundredary.

1775 J. Whitaker Hist. Manch. II. v. 127 The centenary..was equally appointed by the freemen of the hundred-court.

1833 C. W. Collen Britannia Saxonica 12 Every Hundred was governed by an officer, called a Centenary or Hundredary.

1842 H. Brougham Polit. Philos. I. xi. 383 Charlemagne..exercised the absolute and uncontrolled choice of all his governors and their deputies, vicars or viscounts, and removed them at pleasure, as well as the centenaries or governors of hundreds.

1873 E. Farr National Hist. Eng. I. 113/2 Thus over the tithing there was a decanus or tithing-man; over the hundred a centenary, or hundreden.

1923 P. C. Archer Hist. Cheshunt ii. 9 Every ‘Hundred’ was governed by a special officer termed a Centenary or a Hundredary.

†5. A group or collection of a hundred things, esp. works of literature; a hundred. Cf. century n. 6. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > hundred and over > [noun] > hundred

hundc893

hundredc950

centc1436

century1582

centenary1625

ton1962

1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes I. i. xvi. 175 All Historians in manner mention them [sc. religious orders], but none can name them all... Ioannes Wolphius in his Centenaries of Memorable Readings [L. Lectionum memorabilium et reconditarum centenarii XVI], thus expresseth many of them with the times of their Originall.

1625 F. Bell tr. F. de Sosa in tr. A. Daza Hist. Sister Ioane 245 Not only bookes of history, but the Romane Martyrologe it selfe,..calleth Saints many centenaries [Sp. centenarios] yea thousands of persons, which neither are canonized nor beatified.

1796 A. Seward Llangollen Vale 43 The following are selected from a centenary of Sonnets, written..through a Course of more than twenty Years.

1815 Brit. Critic Mar. 268 Our author..has not only given us his ten complete Centenaries of sonnets, but an Appendix at the head.

1860 G. W. J. Gyll Tractate on Lang. 5 The similitude between Gallic and Latin is shewn in Leo's work, where centenaries of words are given alike in form and meaning.

†6. A centenarian. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > person of specific age > [noun]

one-year-old?1609

cinquanter1611

sexagenariana1646

septuagene1657

quintagenarian1687

threescore1721

septuagenarian1744

centenarian1747

seven-year-old1762

septuagenary1792

centenary1800

nonagenarian1804

sexagenary1814

octogenarian1815

nine-year-old1828

octogenary1828

semi-centenarian1828

quinquagenarian1830

quadragenarian1839

seventeen-year-old1858

70-year-old1870

twenty-firster1912

1800 J. Watkins Universal Biogr. & Hist. Dict. at Drinker (Edward) An American centenary, born in 1680.

1837 R. Southey Doctor IV. 341 Centenaries he thought must have been ravens and tortoises.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	centenary
释义	centenaryadj.n. Brit. /sɛnˈtiːn(ə)ri/, /s(ə)nˈtiːn(ə)ri/, /sɛnˈtɛn(ə)ri/, /s(ə)nˈtɛn(ə)ri/, U.S. /sɛnˈtɛnəri/, /ˈsɛntəˌnɛri/ Forms: late Middle English 1600s– centenary, late Middle English–1600s centenarie, 1500s centenaire, 1600s centinary. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin centēnārius. Etymology: < classical Latin centēnārius that is or contains a hundred, in post-classical Latin also lasting a hundred years (4th or 5th cent. in Jerome), relating to the division of a county called a hundred (hundred n. and adj. 5a) (11th or 12th cent.), a hundred years old (from 13th cent. in British sources) < centēnī a hundred each (see centaine n.) + -ārius -ary suffix¹. Compare Middle French, French centenaire (adjective) of or relating to a hundred (c1370), one hundred years old (1539), that weighs a hundred pounds (1614; rare), (noun) person who lives to be one hundred years old (1798), one hundredth anniversary (1867).Specific senses. In sense B. 1 partly after Anglo-Norman centener, Anglo-Norman and Middle French centenier centurion (see centenier n.), and partly after post-classical Latin centenarius centurion (4th cent.: see below). In senses B. 2, B. 4, B. 5, and B. 6 after post-classical Latin centenarius group of a hundred (people or things) (Vulgate, with reference to a group of people; from 16th cent. in work titles, with reference to a group of treatises or chapters), person who lives to be one hundred years old (Vulgate), (in Frankish contexts) officer administering justice in a hundred (frequently from 7th cent. in continental sources), (in Anglo-Saxon contexts) officer in charge of a hundred (12th cent in British sources), period of one hundred years (from early 15th cent. in British sources in centenarius annorum ‘centenary of years’), use as noun of masculine of classical Latin centēnārius , adjective. In sense B. 3 after classical Latin centēnārium (neuter) weight of a hundred pounds, use as noun of neuter of classical Latin centēnārius , adjective; compare earlier centner n., which ultimately derives from the same Latin etymon. Diachronic variation in pronunciation. N.E.D. (1889) gives a pronunciation with first-syllable stress but notes that some contemporary speakers placed the main stress on the antepenultimate syllable. Pronunciations with /ɛ/ in this antepenultimate syllable probably reflect association with centennium n. A. adj. †1. Of or relating to the number 100 or a multiple thereof; of or relating to hundreds (as opposed to tens, units, etc.). Cf. centesimal adj. 2. Obsolete.The exact contextual meaning in quot. c1451 is unclear, although it may be an allusion to the hundredfold reward promised in Mark 10:29–30. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > hundred and over > [adjective] > hundred hundredc975 centenaryc1451 c1451 J. Capgrave Life St. Gilbert (1910) 78 (MED) Be-cause þe noumbir centenarie is applied as for a special reward both to prelates and to maydenes, þerfor hath þis man for þoo too þis special reward. 1604 G. Downame Lect. XV. Psalme 171 The Romans also reduced the principall to the centenarie number. a1646 J. Gregory Posthuma (1649) 82 The Numbers for the most part increasing by a Centenarie accession. 1768 E. Buys New & Compl. Dict. Terms Art I Centenary, belonging to an Hundred. 1824 R. Heber Jrnl. 8 Aug. in Narr. Journey Upper Provinces India (1828) I. ix. 202 The centenary and millesimal way in which the Hindoos express themselves. 1909 S. A. Barrett in Putnam Anniv. Vol. 403 While Cayapa has a strict centenary system above 100, Quichua carries the hundreds only as far as 1,000. 2. a. Occurring every hundred years; relating to or marking a hundredth anniversary. Cf. centennial adj. 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > time > particular time > an anniversary > [adjective] > of a specific anniversary jubilar1613 centenary1620 jubilean1624 centenarious1727 tercentenary1844 semi-centennial1859 quatercentenary1877 quincentenary1878 tricentenary1882 tricentennial1883 quincentennial1884 quingentenary1884 tercentennial1884 octocentenary1888 octocentennial1889 septcentenary1889 quinquagenary1933 quatercentennial1937 quasquicentennial1962 the world > time > period > year > [adjective] > occurring every specific number of years quinquennal1532 quinquennial1601 five-yearly1619 centenary1620 septennial1640 triannual1640 triennial1642 septennary1644 sexennial1646 trieterical1646 novennial1656 octennial1656 trieteric1656 quinquennalian1692 quadrenniala1700 biennial1750 sexennary1753 lustral1781 centennial1797 quaternal1813 sextennial1814 septendecennial1834 septemdecenary1843 undecennarya1847 bicentenary1862 bicentennial1883 quadricentennial1889 trigintennial1894 twelve-yearly1906 vigintennial1921 1620 W. Loe Merchant Reall v. 30 Which yeare of Iubile was wont to be euery fiftith yeare, but nowe in the popes Ephod (Vtilitatis gratia) it is thought meete to be euery fiue, & twentith yeare, & euery centenary yeare. 1647 T. Fuller Good Thoughts in Worse Times i. xx. 45 Centenary yeares return'd but seldome. 1790 A. Duncan Hist. Revol. 1688 Advt. to Rdr. p. iii This short Essay was at first composed for the 5th November 1788, the centenary Anniversary appointed by the General Assembly to commemorate the happy Revolution. 1830 J. H. Monk Life R. Bentley viii. 149 The University of Frankfort..having resolved to celebrate the centenary anniversary of its foundation with secular solemnities, invited various other Universities. 1897 Dict. National Biogr. LI. 105/1 They published..a Centenary edition..in 1870–1. 1905 Musical Times 1 Oct. 657/1 This, the centenary year of Trafalgar and of Nelson's death. 1960 Times 19 Feb. 5/6 An even shorter centenary study of Mahler—it is not intended to be much more than an extra-special programme note to a recital. 2003 Art Q. Spring 17/1 The Art Fund has decided to devote its centenary appeal to securing this extraordinary painting for the nation. †b. Of or relating to a period of a hundred years; lasting for a hundred years; of a hundred years' duration. Cf. centennial adj. 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > [adjective] > of or relating to specific number of years > of a century centenary1688 centennialc1720 centesimal1754 centurial1756 centenarial1821 1688 Answer Talon's Plea 30 The Centinary possession, as they call it, or the enjoyment for many Ages can make no prescription against Sovereignty. 1701 R. Fleming Disc. Several Subjects I. p. lxviii This Year leads us down to a new Centenary Revolution. 1820 H. Fuseli Lect. Painting II. iv. 32 During the course of nearly a centenary practice. a1856 H. Miller Testimony of Rocks (1857) x. 410 Dividing the total thickness of the bed by the centenary elevation. 1911 Bibelot 17 256 When The Lay of the Last Minstrel..and..Harold the Dauntless..have come to their full centenary term of existence, they will find readers and will be reprinted. †3. Of or relating to the administrative unit known as a hundred (hundred n. and adj. 5a). Cf. sense B. 4. Obsolete. historical. rare. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > an administrative division of territory > [adjective] > relating to a hundred centuriate1676 centenary1837 hundredal1862 1837 F. Palgrave Merchant & Friar ii. 63 Marco ascertained that they were the ‘sworn centenary deputies’, a phrase by which I suppose he means the jurors who answered for and represented the several Hundreds. B. n. †1. An officer in command of approximately a hundred soldiers. Cf. centenier n. 1b. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > [noun] > of 100 centuriona1382 under-captain1442 centenaryc1453 centeniera1460 petty captainc1475 hundredera1557 c1453 (c1437) Brut (Harl. 53) 540 (MED) Sir Iohn Ward, knyght, with x Centenaries and lti men of Armes. a1460 Knyghthode & Bataile (Pembr. Cambr. 243) l. 523 (MED) The centenaryes [L. primae centuriae] thervppon shal picche Her pavilons. 1653 B. Parsons tr. Vegetius De Re Militari ii. viii, in Romane Centurion i. 7 They were Centurions who had the charge of euery band of an hundred, who are now called Centenaries [L. centenarii]. 2. †a. A period of one hundred years; a century. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > [noun] > period of specific number of years > a century secle?1533 siecle?1533 age1587 centenary1591 century1591 hundreda1656 cent.1687 centennium1828 1591 T. Barne Serm. sig. B In the infancy of the Church sprang forth Cerinthus and Saturninus, in the second centenarie issued forth Carpocrates and Montanus. 1602 W. Watson tr. E. Pasquier Iesuites Catech. i. x. f. 29 Both the one and the other, were borne in one centenary of yeeres [Fr. centaine d'ans]. 1627 G. Hakewill Apologie i. iv. 49 If we should allow but one inch of decrease in the growth of men for every Centenary. 1725 B. Marshall Chronol. Treat. Seventy Weeks Daniel 78 The 98th year was the last sabbatical Year in the first centenary of years of 70 Weeks of Years. 1865 A. De Morgan Budget of Paradoxes (1872) 11 [The editorial system] has grown up in the last centenary—a word I may use to signify the hundred years now ending, and to avoid the ambiguity of century. 1884 Birmingham Weekly Post 6 Dec. 3/4 Mr. John Hogben..on Sunday completed his centenary. 1918 Illinois Catholic Hist. Rev. Oct. 269 We must not only revive the history of the last centenary..we must prepare to transmit the history of the new centenary that has begun. b. The hundredth anniversary of an event, occurrence, etc.; a celebration of the passing of a century.Now the usual sense. ΘΚΠ the world > time > particular time > an anniversary > [noun] > specific anniversaries jubileec1386 quinquagenary1588 centenary1661 millennium1664 secular1706 coming of age1788 centennial1791 tricentenary1846 tercentenary1855 quinquennial1857 ter-millenary1864 sexcentenary1865 semi-centenary1870 bicentenary1872 septcentenary1873 quincentenary1877 sesquicentennial1880 quadricentennial1882 bicentennial1883 quatercentenary1883 tricentennial1883 tercentennial1884 quincentennial1885 octocentenary1888 quadrennial1890 quingentenary1892 octingentenary1893 ruby anniversary1893 semi-jubilee1893 septingentenary1893 millennial1896 millenary1897 quadringenary1905 quingenary1911 bimillenary1961 sesquicentenary1961 quasquicentennial1962 nongenary1966 octocentennial1994 1661 W. Howell Inst. Gen. Hist. iii. ix. 661 The Second of the Centenaries should have been celebrated in the 405 year. 1736 J. Green Acct. Maronites viii, in Journey Aleppo to Damascus 173 When the Jesuits celebrated the Centenary of their Institution in the Roman College, they did not fail to place the Pictures of these learned Maronites, among those of the illustrious Men for Piety and Learning. 1790 Ann. Reg. 1788 Chron. 220/1 Among the clubs of London who celebrated the centenary of the glorious revolution. 1839 T. Jackson (title) The centenary of Wesleyan Methodism. 1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 20 June 3/2 The [Handel] festival is one full year before its time, owing to the present rage for centenaries. This is the second centenary of Handel's birth. 1924 C. R. Cammell (title) For the centenary of the death of Lord Byron. Verses addressed to the Fathers of the Armenian Mekhitarist Convent at the Isle of S. Lazzaro. 1961 Economist 30 Dec. 1270/1 The Working Men's Club and Institute Union achieves its centenary next year. 2014 Guardian 15 July 7/5 One of the art commissions marking the centenary of the first world war. 3. A unit of weight equal to one hundred pounds, esp. such a unit used in the ancient Greek and Roman world. Cf. hundredweight n. Chiefly (now only) historical. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > [noun] > unit or denomination of weight > pound > one hundred pounds centenary1598 cental1858 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres v. 134 300 Centenaires of lead. 1656 tr. J. A. Comenius Latinæ Linguæ Janua Reserata: Gate Lat. Tongue Unlocked liv. §536 A hundred pound, make a Centenary, or hundred-pound waight. 1712 Perquisite-Monger 7 The Loan of only ten Gold Centenaries. 1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. liii. 499 Their pay..computed at thirty-four centenaries of gold. 1857 G. Finlay Greece under Romans (ed. 2) App. ii. 544 Large sums were reckoned in centenaries, or hundred pounds-weight of gold or silver bullion. 2008 Iran & Caucasus 12 9 It is worthy to note that in 505, after the conclusion of truce, Byzantium paid Shahinshah Kavad eleven centenaries (i.e. nearly 360 kg.) of gold. †4. historical (a) With reference to Frankish and Carolingian administration: an official having responsibility for the administration of local justice. Cf. centgrave n. (b). (b) A bailiff or officer in charge of an English hundred; = hundreder n. 1. Obsolete.It is unclear to what extent there was any similarity between the Anglo-Saxon hundred-man and the officials referred to as centenarius in the Salic Law and other early Germanic law codes. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > holder of office > magistrate > chief magistrate of a district > [noun] > hundreder hundred-mana1000 hundreder1455 centenary1616 centurion1618 centenier1646 centgrave1647 hundredary1700 1616 P. Simson Short Compend Hist. First Ten Persecutions III. ix. 204 Ciuill Iudges ought to judge righteously..and let their Officiars, Vicars, and Centenaries bee righteous men. 1685 R. Brady Compl. Hist. Eng. 79 The Centenary, Hundredary, or chief Officer of the Hundred or Wapentach, was called Aldermannus Hundredi, sive Wapentachii. 1700 H. Chauncy Hist. Antiq. Herts. 26 Every Hundred was govern'd by a particular Officer, called a Centenary, or a Hundredary. 1775 J. Whitaker Hist. Manch. II. v. 127 The centenary..was equally appointed by the freemen of the hundred-court. 1833 C. W. Collen Britannia Saxonica 12 Every Hundred was governed by an officer, called a Centenary or Hundredary. 1842 H. Brougham Polit. Philos. I. xi. 383 Charlemagne..exercised the absolute and uncontrolled choice of all his governors and their deputies, vicars or viscounts, and removed them at pleasure, as well as the centenaries or governors of hundreds. 1873 E. Farr National Hist. Eng. I. 113/2 Thus over the tithing there was a decanus or tithing-man; over the hundred a centenary, or hundreden. 1923 P. C. Archer Hist. Cheshunt ii. 9 Every ‘Hundred’ was governed by a special officer termed a Centenary or a Hundredary. †5. A group or collection of a hundred things, esp. works of literature; a hundred. Cf. century n. 6. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > hundred and over > [noun] > hundred hundc893 hundredc950 centc1436 century1582 centenary1625 ton1962 1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes I. i. xvi. 175 All Historians in manner mention them [sc. religious orders], but none can name them all... Ioannes Wolphius in his Centenaries of Memorable Readings [L. Lectionum memorabilium et reconditarum centenarii XVI], thus expresseth many of them with the times of their Originall. 1625 F. Bell tr. F. de Sosa in tr. A. Daza Hist. Sister Ioane 245 Not only bookes of history, but the Romane Martyrologe it selfe,..calleth Saints many centenaries [Sp. centenarios] yea thousands of persons, which neither are canonized nor beatified. 1796 A. Seward Llangollen Vale 43 The following are selected from a centenary of Sonnets, written..through a Course of more than twenty Years. 1815 Brit. Critic Mar. 268 Our author..has not only given us his ten complete Centenaries of sonnets, but an Appendix at the head. 1860 G. W. J. Gyll Tractate on Lang. 5 The similitude between Gallic and Latin is shewn in Leo's work, where centenaries of words are given alike in form and meaning. †6. A centenarian. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > person of specific age > [noun] one-year-old?1609 cinquanter1611 sexagenariana1646 septuagene1657 quintagenarian1687 threescore1721 septuagenarian1744 centenarian1747 seven-year-old1762 septuagenary1792 centenary1800 nonagenarian1804 sexagenary1814 octogenarian1815 nine-year-old1828 octogenary1828 semi-centenarian1828 quinquagenarian1830 quadragenarian1839 seventeen-year-old1858 70-year-old1870 twenty-firster1912 1800 J. Watkins Universal Biogr. & Hist. Dict. at Drinker (Edward) An American centenary, born in 1680. 1837 R. Southey Doctor IV. 341 Centenaries he thought must have been ravens and tortoises. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † centenaryv. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: centenary n. Etymology: < centenary n. Compare earlier centenarize v. and centennialize v. Obsolete. transitive. To honour or commemorate (a person, event, etc.) with a centenary celebration. Also intransitive: to celebrate or commemorate a centenary. ΚΠ 1888 Sc. Leader 9 Apr. 4 Those who had already monuments enough might be centenaried, while one whose centenary was not available might have a new monument. 1907 Sat. Rev. 9 Nov. 574/2 Two years hence the ‘shere’ will be centenarying its greatest son, whose statue has been set up at Lincoln. 1919 Athens (Ohio) Messenger 20 June 8/4 There were no preaching services at the M. E. church yesterday..owing to the absence of the pastor, who with Mrs. Cherrington are Centenarying at Columbus. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < adj.n.c1451v.1888
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centenaryadj.n.

† centenaryv.