centuried

American  

[sen-chuh-reed] / ˈsɛn tʃə rid /

adjective

1. existing for an indefinite number of centuries.

2. very old; ancient.

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Etymology

Origin of centuried

First recorded in 1810–20; century + -ed ³

Example Sentences

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centuried

The Free Synagogue is aligning itself with that centuried tradition.

From Time Magazine Archive

Its front gate, I noted, was a centuried relic from a distant shrine.

From Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda, Paramahansa

To-morrow we'll deliver the matter to you—and the wheels that grind the centuried darkness to destruction will again start a-rolling.

From Mother by Gorky, Maksim

Nothing, for example, could be better adapted for nesting purposes than these cedar trees; not so much the centuried veterans, as the young things of ten or twenty years' growth.

From Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road by Bates, Katharine Lee

Above, the old weathercock groans, but remembers Creaking, to turn, in its centuried rust.

From A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass by Lowell, Amy