a. [ad. L. centuriāl-is, f. centuria: see CENTURY and -AL.]

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  1.  Of or pertaining to a century (senses 1, 2).

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1610.  Healey, St. Aug. Citie of God, 81. The kings being casheered out of Rome by the great Centuriall Parliament.

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1656.  J. Harrington, Oceana (1700), 185. The Suffrage in the Centurial Assemblys.

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1851.  D. Wilson, Preh. Ann. (1863), II. III. ii. 42. Legionary or centurial tablets and other Roman inscriptions.

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1880.  Athenæum, 11 Dec., 781.

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  2.  Of or pertaining to a century or hundred years.

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1864.  Lowell, Fireside Trav., 71. Quadrangles mossy with centurial associations.

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1877.  Bp. S. Butcher, Eccl. Calendar, xxx. 36. In any two consecutive centurial years, the 1st of January in the one year will be 6 week-days apart from January 1 in the other.

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