centuriate

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adjective

Divided into hundreds.

OriginLatin centuriātus →
Scrabble 12
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Meanings

adjectivecenturiate (not comparable)
  1. not comparableDivided into hundreds.

    In the Centuriate assemblies holden by degrees, and Curiat-meetings by the wardes and parishes.

    1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC
verbcenturiate (third-person singular simple present centuriates, present participle centuriating, simple past and past participle centuriated)

present singular third person centuriates · participle present centuriating · participle past centuriated · past centuriated

  1. obsoleteTo divide into hundreds.

Origin

  1. Latincenturiātus
  2. Englishcenturiate

First attested in 1540; borrowed from Latin centuriātus, perfect passive participle of centuriō (“to divide into groups of one hundred”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix).

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APA

centuriate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/centuriate

MLA

“centuriate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/centuriate. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “centuriate,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/centuriate.

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