CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

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CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men) , the name for a unit in the

Roman

ROMAN

army, originally amounting to one hundred men, and for one of the divisions into which the

Roman

ROMAN

people

PEOPLE

was separated for voting purposes (see CoMITIA). The word is applied to any

group

GROUP

of one hundred, and more particularly to a period of a hundred years, and to the successive periods of a hundred years, dating before or after the

birth

BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic
languages
- LANGUAGES
from the
root
- ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
- ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
of the verb " to bear ")

of Christ. The "

Century

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

-plant " is a name given to the

Agave

AGAVE

(q.v.), or American

aloe

ALOE

, from the supposition that it flowered once only in every hundred years.

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