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centuries 音标拼音: [s'ɛntʃɚiz] centuries的复数 centuries的复数 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.] [ 1913 Webster] And on it said a century of prayers. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A period of a hundred years; as, this event took place over two centuries ago. [ 1913 Webster] 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). [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] { 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. [ 1913 Webster]
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