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单词 centurion
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centurionn.

Brit. /sɛnˈtjʊərɪən/, /sɛnˈtʃʊərɪən/, /sɛnˈtjɔːrɪən/, /sɛnˈtʃɔːrɪən/, U.S. /sɛnˈt(j)ʊriən/
Forms:

α. Old English centur.

β. Old English–Middle English centurio, Old English– centurion, Old English centurius (rare), Middle English centirion (probably transmission error), Middle English centorioun, Middle English centurioun, Middle English centuryon, Middle English centuryone, Middle English sentoreo, Middle English senturio, Middle English–1500s centuryo, 1500s senturion.

γ. Middle English centauryen, Middle English centuryen, Middle English–1600s centurien, 1500s– centurian.

δ. Middle English centorie, Middle English centurius (plural), Middle English centurye, Middle English senturius (plural), 1500s century.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from French. Etymons: Latin centuriōn-, centurio; French centurioun.
Etymology: Originally < classical Latin centuriōn-, centurio (see below). Subsequently reborrowed < (i) Anglo-Norman centurioun, centuriun, centurio, centurie, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French centurion (French centurion ) officer commanding a century in the Roman army (end of the 12th cent.), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin centuriōn-, centurio officer commanding a century in the Roman army, in post-classical Latin also any officer in command of a hundred men (Vulgate), hundredman, hundred-bailiff (from 12th cent. in British sources) < centuria century n. + -ōn- , (see -oon suffix). Compare Old Occitan centurio (second half of the 13th cent.), Spanish centurión (13th cent.), Portuguese centurião (14th cent.), Italian centurione (13th cent.).In α. forms with omission of the ending. The Old English form centurius (one isolated attestation) apparently shows suffix substitution (after Latin nouns of the second declension in -us ). The γ. forms show suffix substitution (so already in Anglo-Norman); compare -an suffix, and also post-classical Latin centurianus (1536 or earlier). With the δ. forms compare Anglo-Norman centurie , which probably shows reduction of the ending. In senses 3a, 3b after corresponding specific uses of century n.
1.
a. Roman History. The officer in command of a century (century n. 2a).In quot. a1300 perhaps understood as a proper name.
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OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Matt. viii. 5 Accessit ad eum centurio : geneolecade uel tocuom to him ðe centur þæt is hundraðes monna hlaferd.
OE (Mercian) Rushw. Gospels: Matt. viii.13 Dixit Iesus centorioni, uade : cwæþ ða se hælend to þæm centurione gang.
a1300 Passion our Lord 485 in R. Morris Old Eng. Misc. (1872) 51 Þet iseyh centurio þat þer bisydes stod.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Deeds xxi. 32 Knyȝtis takun to, and centuriouns [a1425 L.V. centuriens; L. centurionibus].
a1460 Knyghthode & Bataile (Pembr. Cambr. 243) l. 936 (MED) The footmen haue a Centurion That hath in rewle an c men & x.
c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 2 (MED) Corneli centurio, ȝet vncristund, is clensid wiþ þe Hooli Goost.
?1520 A. Barclay tr. Sallust Cron. Warre agaynst Iugurth xxv. f. xxxiiiiv Ye centuryon which was assigned to be captayn ouer them which wer commytted to fight about ye first standard of ye thyrd legion.
1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. i. 45 The soldiers mutin and charge the Centurions and Tribunes with treason.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) iv. iii. 41 The Centurions..to be on foot at an houres warning. View more context for this quotation
1675 S. Clarke Lives & Deaths Most Eminent Persons 107 Twenty of Herods choicest Souldiers got upon the Wall, and after them the Centurions of Sosius.
1715 Clavis Virgilianiæ ix. 27 Having been ill Treated, and almost Killed by the Centurion Arius.
1760 T. Nugent tr. P. Macquer Chronol. Abridgm. Rom. Hist. 122 The most honourable of the centurions was the primipilus who was the centurion of the right hand order of the first manipulus.
1838 T. Arnold Hist. Rome I. xiii. 222 To seize and execute every centurion whose century had fled.
1868 D. M'Carthy Epist. & Gospels of Sundays throughout Year 87/1 The friends of the centurion received from him, we may be sure, the same orders.
1928 H. Parker Rom. Legions vii. 204 Those centurions who were supernumerary to the legionary establishment were posted to the head-quarters of the provincial governor.
1955 L. de Wohl Spear (1957) ii. 84 He had a tuft of red horsehair on his helmet, marking him as a leader of one hundred men, a centurion.
2007 S. Dando-Collins Mark Antony's Heroes xii. 105 Petronius Fortunatus, a centurion of the 1st Italica Legion..was still serving at age sixty-six.
b. In extended use: any officer in command of a body of approximately 100 soldiers. Cf. centenier n. 1b.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > [noun] > of 100
centuriona1382
under-captain1442
centenaryc1453
centeniera1460
petty captainc1475
hundredera1557
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Deut. i. 15 Y haue ordeyned hem pryncys & trybunys & Centurionys [a1425 Corpus Oxf. centuriouns; L. centuriones] & quynquagenaryes & denys.
Remonstr. against Romish Corruptions (Titus) (1851) 108 (MED) Ordeyne thou of hem tribunis, that is souereyns of a thousand, and centurions, that is, souereyns of an hundrid..that shulen deme the puple in ech tyme.
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. ii. f. 9 He sent forth dyuers other Centurians with their hundrethes.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries xvi. f. ccxxiv The Bisshop..was so desyrous of warre agaynst the Lutheranes, that..he hyred Centurions and Captaynes.
1603 S. Harsnett Declar. Popish Impostures x. 47 Captaine Philpot, Trayfords deuill, was a Centurion, (as himselfe tels you) and had an hundred vnder his charge.
1688 P. Rycaut tr. G. de la Vega Royal Comm. Peru ii. xiv. 514 About an hundred Souldiers, under a Centurion or Captain, (which is the smallest number that the Indians have in a Company).
1751 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer at Wight-Island The militia here is divided into 11 bands, over each of which is an officer, called a centurion, though he commands more than 100 men.
1754 E. Burt Lett. N. Scotl. II. xix. 117 One of the Centurions or Captains of a Hundred, is said to strip his other Tenants of their best Plaids wherewith to cloath his Soldiers.
1823 Amer. Masonic Reg. Sept. 255/1 There is scarcely a centurion of the British army, that exerted himself on that day, that has not obtained a niche in some periodical repository.
1851 ‘Bengal Subaltern’ Debts of Bengal Army 7 In the Royal Service again, several years..have to elapse ere an Officer has the command or charge of men; in ours he may..become a centurion before he attains the age of nineteen.
1930 E. A. Ashwin tr. N. Remy Demonolatry ii. ix. 126/2 King Ahaziah sent a centurion with fifty soldiers to bring Elijah to him.
2012 P. B. Brown in B. Davies Warfare in E. Europe 262 The leader of a 100-man unit..was a centurion or captain (sotnik).
c. figurative. A person, divine being, etc., whose role is likened to that of a Roman centurion; esp. an absolute authority; a person able to issue commands to others. Now frequently in political contexts.
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1650 J. Trapp Clavis to Bible (Gen. vi. 20) 69 See how sequacious these poor creatures are to God their Centurion.
1681 L. Womock Verdict upon Dissenters Plea 134 Conscience, I confess, is a Centurion of great Command; but yet 'tis under another Jurisdiction.
a1797 H. Walpole Mem. George III (1845) IV. v. 175 While discord and interest thus tore in pieces the Opposition, fate was preparing to deprive them of their most important centurians.
1881 Jrnl. Mental Sci. 26 455 Now, Dr. Savage was at Bethlem a kind of centurion, who could say, ‘Do this,’ and it would be done.
1894 S. W. Mitchell When All Woods are Green viii. 116 He was a-consoling me, and thinking he'd just only got to be a kind of centurion for a woman's troubles, and say go and they'd go.
1938 E. Hastings & J. Hastings Speaker's Bible XXIX. 134/2 Life is our centurion; always laying burdens upon us, always compelling us to go weary miles in directions we do not desire.
1992 Time 12 Oct. 24/3 They pitched their respective candidate's [sic] policies to Perot's centurions.
2003 S. Blumenthal Clinton Wars i. 19 Bush put his fate in the hands of his political centurions, who ran a relentlessly negative campaign.
2. = centenier n. 2. Cf. centenary n. 4. Obsolete.In quot. 1641 apparently also used to refer to a hundredal unit; cf. century n. 7.
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society > authority > office > holder of office > magistrate > chief magistrate of a district > [noun] > hundreder
hundred-mana1000
hundreder1455
centenary1616
centurion1618
centenier1646
centgrave1647
hundredary1700
1618 S. Ward Iethro's Iustice of Peace 54 From the Gouernour of the thousand, to the Centurion, from him to the Tithing-man or Decinour.
1641 Select Observ. Offices & Officers in Militia of Eng. in Harleian Misc. (1810) V. 47 Those earls..divided them [sc. each county] into centurians or hundreds; and in every hundred was appointed a centurian or constable.
1791 ‘J. Gifford’ Hist. France I. 101 Ecclesiastics were tried by the clergy; the military by officers..and the people by centurions in the boroughs and villages.
1836 Guernsey & Jersey Mag. Aug. 95 The justice of the hundred was the lord of the manor, and he was otherwise named centurion, centenier, and alderman.
1866 M. J. Spalding tr. J. E. Darras Gen. Hist. Catholic Church II. iii. xii. 385 Each class and profession had its own tribunal, laws, and customs. In villages, the executive officer was a centurion.
1915 J. W. Garner tr. J. Brissaud Hist. French Public Law ii. 106 The counts and the centurions were the ordinary judges.
3.
a. Cricket. A player who scores a hundred or more runs in an innings. Also with modifying word indicating a score of twice, thrice, etc., this amount, as double, triple, etc. Cf. century n. 10a.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricketer > [noun] > batsman > types of batsman
sticker1832
short runner1833
punisher1846
slogger1850
blocker1851
cutter1851
swiper1853
top scorer1860
stick1863
left-hander1864
smiter1878
centurion1886
driver1888
pad-player1888
poker1888
spectacle-maker1893
back-player1897
hooker1900
under-runner1903
puller1911
square cutter1920
straight driver1925
stroke-maker1927
goose-gamer1928
stroke-player1935
flasher1936
sweeper1961
tonker1977
1886 Graphic 31 July 107/2 Some other ‘centurions’ have been Chatterton (108) for M.C.C., A. Shuker (103 not out) for Trent.
1900 Westm. Gaz. 18 July 2/3 This is the third time he has been a double centurion.
1964 Guardian 15 Aug. 3/5 I'm wearing a Centurion's tie. It was awarded to me when I scored my first century against Northants early on last season.
1988 Times of India 15 Sept. 12 The first triple centurion in the tournament's long history.
2013 Cricketer Nov. 72/2 Alastair Cook, England's most prolific Test centurion.
b. Cycling. A person who has ridden a hundred miles (or kilometres) in one journey. Cf. century n. 11.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing with vehicles > bicycle race > [noun] > bicycle-racer
racing cyclist1886
centurion1893
1893 Home & Country Mag. Jan. 550/2 Miss Kittie Kipfel is a Buffalo centurion.
1933 Colorado Mag. Nov. 214 ‘Century rides’..were not uncommon, usually to Greeley and back. One ‘centurion’, who was very proud of his feat, was Edward S. Irish.
1977 Chicago Tribune 14 Sept. (Venture section) 1/4 Few are among the cycling centurions of autumn.
2007 Herald Express (Torquay) (Nexis) 13 Jan. 4 A challenge has been laid down for South Devon's occasional bike riders to transform themselves into cycling centurions.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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