centuried
adjEtymology From century + -ed.
- 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:
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- Muck, murk, and humus, and the human anguish And human hope, and that dark wood-mold sweeter1953, Robert Penn Warren, "Brother to Dragons: A Tale in Verse and Voices," The Kenyon Review, vol. 15, no. 1 (Winter), p. 101
- 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