centory

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A form of centaury — Centaurium, sensu stricto

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Meanings

nouncentory (countable and uncountable, plural centories)

plural centories

  1. alternativecountableobsoleteuncountableAlternative form of centaury.

    Neither dare I hold with the moderne errour of many, that hold the roote of this great Centory to be the Rhaponticum of Dioſcorides, Galen, and others[…]

    1640, John Parkinson, “Centaurium majus. The greater Centory”, in Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants. Or, An Herball of a Large Extent: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, →OCLC, page 465
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