centurial

[sen-toor-ee-uhl, -tyoor-]

adjective

1. pertaining to a century.

centurial

/ sɛnˈtjʊərɪəl /

adjective

1. of or relating to a Roman century

2. rare,  involving a period of 100 years

Word History and Origins

Origin of centurial¹

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.

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But there’s an exception to that: The centurial years that are exactly divisible by 400 are leap years.

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In order to account for this, Leap Day is skipped on “centurial years not divisible by 400.”

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But if Holzhauer continues to dominate the game as he has during his first 11 episodes, he will have effectively turned Jennings into Steffi Graf, a generational talent, and crowned himself Serena Williams, a centurial one.

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Because the Julian calendar has a leap year in all years divisible by four—without excepting centurial years not divisible by 400, the way the Gregorian calendar does—the discrepancy between the Julian and Gregorian calendar changes periodically.

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