Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CEN'TRAL-IZE, v.t.

To draw to a central point; to bring to a center. – Calhoun.

CEN'TRAL-LY, adv.

With regard to the center; in a central manner.

CEN'TRIC, a.

Placed in the center or middle.

CEN'TRIC-AL-LY, adv.

In a central position.

CEN'TRIC-AL-NESS, n.

Situation in the center.

CEN-TRIF'U-GAL, a. [L. centrum, and fugio, to flee.]

1. Tending to recede from the center. The centrifugal force of a body, is that force by which all bodies moving round another body in a curve tend to fly off from the axis of their motion, in a tangent to the periphery of the curve. – Encyc.
2. In botany, expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower. – Lindley.

CEN-TRIP'E-TAL, a. [L. centrum, and peto, to move toward.]

1. Tending toward the center. Centripetal force is that force which draws or impels a body toward some point as a center; as in case of a planet revolving round the sun, the center of the system.
2. In botany, expanding first at the base of the inflorescence, and later at the summit, as a flower. – Lindley. Note. – The common accentuation of centrifugal and centripetal is artificial and harsh. The accent on the first and third syllables, as in circumpolar, would be natural and easy.

CEN'TUM-VIR, n. [L. centum, a hundred, and vir, a man.]

One of a hundred and five judges, in ancient Rome, appointed to decide common causes among the people.

CEN-TUM'VI-RAL, a.

Pertaining to the centumvirs.

CEN-TUM'VI-RI, n. [L.]

The hundred judges in Rome.

CEN'TU-PLE, a. [Fr. from L. centuplex, centum, and plico, to fold.]

A hundred fold.

CEN'TU-PLE, v.t.

To multiply a hundred fold. – Beaum.

CEN-TU'PLI-CATE, v.t. [L. centum, and plicatus, folded; Sp. centuplicar, to make a hundred fold.]

To make a hundred fold.

CEN-TU'PLI-CA-TED, pp.

Made a hundred fold.

CEN-TU'PLI-CA-TING, ppr.

Making a hundred fold.

CEN-TU'RI-AL, a. [from century.]

Relating to a century, or a hundred years; as a centurial sermon. When the third centurial jubilee of New-England shall come, who of us will then be living to participate the general joy? – J. Woodbridge.

CEN-TU'RI-ATE, v.t. [L. centurio, to divide into hundreds or companies.]

To divide into hundreds. – Johnson. Bailey.

CEN-TU'RI-A-TOR, or CEN'TU-RIST, n. [Fr. centuriateur, from L. centuria, a century, or from centurio, to divide into hundreds.]

A historian who distinguishes time into centuries; as in the Universal Church History of Magdeburg. – Ayliffe.

CEN-TU'RI-ON, n. [L. centurio, from centum, a hundred.]

Among the Romans, a military officer who commanded a hundred men, century or company of infantry, answering to the captain in modern armies.

CEN'TU-RY, n. [L. centuria from centum, a hundred.]

1. In a general sense, a hundred; any thing consisting of a hundred parts.
2. A division of the Roman people for the purpose of electing magistrates and enacting laws, the people voting by centuries; also, a company consisting of a hundred men.
3. A period of a hundred years. This is the most common signification of the word; and as we begin our modern computation of time from the incarnation of Christ, the word is generally applied to some term of a hundred years subsequent to that event; as, the first or second century, or the tenth century. If we intend to apply the word to a different era, we use an explanatory adjunct; as, the third century before the Christian era, or after the reign of Cyrus.
4. The Centuries of Magdeburg, a title given to an ecclesiastical history, arranged in 13 centuries, compiled by a great number of Protestants at Magdeburg.

CENT-ZONT'LI, n.

The Mexican name of the Turdus polyglottus, or mocking thrush. – Clavigero.

CEOL, n. [Sax. a ship, L. celox, or Eng. keel.]

This word is sometimes found prefixed to names.

CEPH-AL-AL'GIC, a. [Infra.]

Relating to headache.

CEPH'AL-AL-GY, n. [Gr. κεφαλαλγια, κεφαλη, the head, and αλγος, pain.]

The headache.

CE-PHAL'IC, a. [Gr. κεφαλικος, from κεφαλη, the head.]

Pertaining to the head; as, cephalic medicines, remedies for disorders in the head. The cephalic vein, which runs along the arm, was so named because the ancients used to open it for disorders of the head. – Encyc.