(n.) A military officer who commanded a minor division of the Roman army; a captain of a century.
Example Sentences:
(1) As he is scrawling the words "Romanes eunt domus," a centurion apprehends him.
(2) That was until July 1977, when Mary Whitehouse, self-appointed guardian of national morals, won a blasphemy libel case against Gay News for publishing a poem about a Roman centurion's homoerotic leanings towards the crucified Christ.
(3) Jain also announced the channel's first UK-originated scripted comedy, Plebs, which is set in ancient Rome and described by the broadcaster as "like The Inbetweeners, with centurions".
(4) "As a result, all of England's first three centurions (Billy Wright 105, Bobby Moore 108, Bobby Charlton 106*) racked up their tally as starters, so Ashley has a bit to do to catch them, and Baines is knocking on the door …" * Not entirely true, Andy – Bobby Charlton came on in the 33rd minute of England's 10-0 victory over the USA in New York in May 1964, his 53rd cap.
(5) Ibori also bought a fleet of luxury cars, and in three years ran up £920,000 on his American Express Centurion card – a card only available to the super-rich, Wass told the court.
(6) Lampard has been a stalwart for his country and, like Gerrard, will depart as a centurion.
(7) Could you drive a Centurion 2 battle tank into the heart of the action?
(8) The coach, who is stepping down after seven years in charge also namechecked two other centurions who are retiring from the international scene, the goalkeeper Andreas Isaksson and the midfield string-puller Kim Kallstrom.
(9) The 37-year-old achieved the feat, and also passed 14,500 Test runs, as India battled to make South Africa bat again in the first Test in Centurion.
(10) Interests Leigh Centurions rugby league club, Everton football club, playing the guitar, indie music.
(11) Versus Vs Versus, which preceded The Last Stand to Reason, featured Roman centurions, new age hippies, and a father and daughter on the run.
(12) It's the way history has been taught in British schools ever since the advent of the schools history project in the 1970s and the rejection of historical knowledge in favour of "source analysis" and "child-centered" learning ("Imagine you are a Roman centurion …").
(13) South Africa picked up the last two India wickets in the first 30 minutes of day five of the first Test at Centurion to secure victory by an innings and 25 runs.
(14) The South Africa captain, Graeme Smith, hailed his bowlers for setting up an emphatic victory after the hosts defeated India by an innings and 25 runs in the first Test at Centurion.
(15) The list of Oranje centurions is an impressive one.
Roman
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Rome, or the Roman people; like or characteristic of Rome, the Roman people, or things done by Romans; as, Roman fortitude; a Roman aqueduct; Roman art.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic religion; professing that religion.
(a.) Upright; erect; -- said of the letters or kind of type ordinarily used, as distinguished from Italic characters.
(a.) Expressed in letters, not in figures, as I., IV., i., iv., etc.; -- said of numerals, as distinguished from the Arabic numerals, 1, 4, etc.
(n.) A native, or permanent resident, of Rome; a citizen of Rome, or one upon whom certain rights and privileges of a Roman citizen were conferred.
(n.) Roman type, letters, or print, collectively; -- in distinction from Italics.
Example Sentences:
(1) The club then brought in Darren Randolph, Dean Brill, Scott Flinders, Roman Larrieu, and Simon Royce on loan at various times."
(2) It has been a place of pilgrimage for many centuries and a tourist attraction probably since Roman times.
(3) After heading for Rome with his long-term partner, Howard Auster, he returned to fiction with a bestselling novel, Julian, based on the life of a late Roman emperor; a political novel, Washington DC, based on his own family; and Myra Breckinridge, a subversive satire that examined contradictions of gender and sexuality with enough comic brio to become a worldwide bestseller.
(4) So the worst start to a campaign in the Roman Abramovich era has condemned Chelsea to the top of the Premier League table.
(5) Most of what we know about it comes from the accounts given by the Roman writers Polybius (c200-118BC) and Livy (59BC-AD17).
(6) These include 250 pieces of Greek and Roman pottery and sculpture, and 1,500 Greek and Ottoman gold, silver and bronze coins.
(7) They too will almost certainly play a 4-2-3-1, with Messrs Piszczek, Subotic, Hummels and Schmeizer lining up from right to left in front of goalkeeper Roman Weidenfeller.
(8) A treasure trove of more than £1.7bn-worth of old masters paintings, Greek, Roman and Egyptian antiquities, ancient weapons and prehistoric archaeological items were allowed to be sold overseas in the year to May 2013, according to official statistics issued by the government .
(9) JV If you go back to a western point of view from the time, even the Romans, the slaves worked then in a feudal society.
(10) About 4,000 government-issued shovels were handed out in several main piazzas to Romans trying to clear their streets before a freeze forecast for Sunday evening.
(11) Meanwhile, Chelsea fans' disgruntlement grows: "I know Rafa said no more transfers in January but we still need a midfielder and I don't think Roman or Emenalo share their thoughts with Rafa," blubs Mihir Khatwani.
(12) Sophie Jackson, of Museum of London Archaeology , said: "The waterlogged conditions left by the Walbrook stream have given us layer upon layer of Roman timber buildings, fences and yards, all beautifully preserved and containing amazing personal items, clothes and even documents – all of which will transform our understanding of the people of Roman London."
(13) In December he smashed apart the Roman forces in the north, assisted by his awesome elephants, the tanks of classical warfare.
(14) He has chosen to live in a modest Vatican hotel room instead of the grandeur of the apostolic palace; and he has dropped some of the papal pomp, while preaching the Roman Catholic church's need to identify with the world's poor.
(15) We aren't surprised that the Romans had nothing to say about, say, the nearby Avebury stone circle, because it's far less manifest than Stonehenge – and by extension, the oblivion of time that blankets scores of British Neolithic and bronze age sites is in keeping with our current ignorance: to this day, so few people visit them that their enigmatic character is itself underimagined.
(16) In spite of his place at the top of the Vatican hierarchy and his academic pedigree, he has urged the church to do more to appeal to the modern world, arguing it needs to build on the second Vatican Council of the 1960s, which proved a landmark moment in Roman Catholic history.
(17) Analysis of the genetic distance between Romanians and other Europeans who have been studied serologically are consistent with the hypothesis that Romanians descend from Roman ancestors who colonized Dacia between the 1st century B.C.
(18) "The relationship between a bishop and a priest of a Roman Catholic diocese has many of the hallmarks of an employment relationship, and therefore it is right and proper that the church should be held legally accountable for abuse by its priests.
(19) "I am a Roman Catholic and it's the backbone of my life.
(20) The plasma membrane components of five human B-cell lines and three human T-cell lines were separated by dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, incubated with the radioactive labeled lectins from lentil, castor bean, wheat germ, Phaseolus bean, peanut, gorse and the Roman snail and the molecular weights of the binding sites determined.