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- literarynot comparablerareHaving existed for centuries; ancient.
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 Glass3 more examples
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. 9Muck, murk, and humus, and the human anguish And human hope, and that dark wood-mold sweeter
1953, Robert Penn Warren, "Brother to Dragons: A Tale in Verse and Voices," The Kenyon Review, vol. 15, no. 1 (Winter), p. 101Here 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
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