centurial

American  

[sen-toor-ee-uhl, -tyoor-] / sɛnˈtʊər i əl, -ˈtyʊər- /

adjective

1. pertaining to a century.

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centurial British  

/ sɛnˈtjʊərɪəl /

adjective

1. of or relating to a Roman century

2. rare involving a period of 100 years

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Etymology

Origin of centurial

1600–10; < Latin centuriālis, equivalent to centuri ( a ) century + -ālis -al ¹

Example Sentences

Naqvi studied with Cyrille at the New School in the mid-’90s and with Smith at CalArts in 2006 — the album title is a nod to the centurial hump between enrollments.

From Washington Post • Dec. 20, 2022

Take 16 from the centurial figures of the given year, if it can be done, and take the remainder.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Smith, David Eugene

From the centurial figures of the year subtract 17, divide by 25, and keep the quotient.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Smith, David Eugene

It is not interrupted, however, at the end of every century, for the leap-year is not suppressed in every fourth centurial year; consequently the cycle will then be continued for two hundred years.

From Our Calendar by Packer, George Nichols

In the first class were about eighteen centuries of horse, being those which, by the institution of Servius, were first called to the suffrage in the centurial assemblies.

From The Commonwealth of Oceana by Harrington, James