centuried

== English == === Etymology === From century +‎ -ed. === Adjective === centuried (not comparable) (rare, chiefly literary) Having existed for centuries; ancient. 1907, Maxim Gorky (author), Mother, Public domain translation (translator unknown), ch. 9: To-morrow we'll deliver the matter to you—and the wheels that grind the centuried darkness to destruction will again start a-rolling. 1953, Robert Penn Warren, "Brother to Dragons: A Tale in Verse and Voices," The Kenyon Review, vol. 15, no. 1 (Winter), p. 101: Muck, murk, and humus, and the human anguish And human hope, and that dark wood-mold sweeter Than any dropped through centuried silence . . . 1987, Calvin Bedient, "On Milan Kundera," Salmagundi, no. 73 (Winter), p. 94: Here he finds "concrete existence," for instance "hated irony" and dialogue and jokes and "the centuried roots of jazz." === References === === Anagrams === interduce, unrecited