Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CEN-TU'RI-ON
CEN-TU'RI-A-TOR, or CEN'TU-RISTCEN'TU-RY
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.
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