Dictionary

centuried en · ADJ

Etymology

From century + -ed.

Meanings

1. (literary, not-comparable, rare) Having existed for centuries; ancient.
   • To-morrow we'll deliver the matter to you—and the wheels that grind the centuried darkness to destruction will again start a-rolling. 1907, Maxim Gorky (author), Mother, Public domain translation (translator unknown), ch. 9
   • Above, the old weathercock groans, but remembers Creaking, to turn, in its centuried rust. 1912, Amy Lowell, “March Evening”, in A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass:
   • Here he finds "concrete existence," for instance "hated irony" and dialogue and jokes and "the centuried roots of jazz." 1987, Calvin Bedient, "On Milan Kundera," Salmagundi, no. 73 (Winter), p. 94
   • Muck, murk, and humus, and the human anguish And human hope, and that dark wood-mold sweeter 1953, Robert Penn Warren, "Brother to Dragons: A Tale in Verse and Voices," The Kenyon Review, vol. 15, no. 1 (Winter), p. 101