English

Adjective

centuried ‎(not comparable)

1. (rare, chiefly literary) Having existed for centuries; ancient.^[1]
   • 1907, Maxim Gorky (author), Mother, Public domain translation (translator unknown), ch. 9:

     To-morrow we'll deliver the matter to you—and the wheels that grind the centuried darkness to destruction will again start a-rolling.

   • 1912, Amy Lowell, "March Evening" in A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass:

     Above, the old weathercock groans, but remembers

     Creaking, to turn, in its centuried rust.

   • 1953, Robert Penn Warren, "Brother to Dragons: A Tale in Verse and Voices," The Kenyon Review, vol. 15, no. 1 (Winter), p. 101:

     Muck, murk, and humus, and the human anguish

     And human hope, and that dark wood-mold sweeter

     Than any dropped through centuried silence . . .

   • 1987, Calvin Bedient, "On Milan Kundera," Salmagundi, no. 73 (Winter), p. 94:

     Here he finds "concrete existence," for instance "hated irony" and dialogue and jokes and "the centuried roots of jazz."

References

1. ↑ Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed. (1989)