a. [f. L. centum + ped- foot + -AL.] Of one hundred (metrical) feet.
1879. G. Meredith, Egoist, II. vi. 136. Your uncertainty … would only be extended were the line centipedal.
1882. Emelyn W. Washburn, Early Eng. Lit., vii. 153. A New Englander comes out of his common school with a conversation made up of all the largest centipedal words in Webster; never a good, homely, telling monosyllable.
