Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CEN-TU'RI-A-TOR, or CEN'TU-RIST
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.
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