(n.) A hundred; as, a century of sonnets; an aggregate of a hundred things.
(n.) A period of a hundred years; as, this event took place over two centuries ago.
(n.) A division of the Roman people formed according to their property, for the purpose of voting for civil officers.
(n.) One of sixty companies into which a legion of the army was divided. It was Commanded by a centurion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Typological and archaeological investigations indicate that the church building represents originally the hospital facility for the lay brothers of the monastery, which according to the chronicle of the monastery was built in the beginning of the 14th century.
(2) This "paradox of redistribution" was certainly observable in Britain, where Welfare retained its status as one of the 20th century's most exalted creations, even while those claiming benefits were treated with ever greater contempt.
(3) When reformist industrialist Robert Owen set about creating a new community among the workers in his New Lanark cotton-spinning mills at the turn of the nineteenth century, it was called socialism, not corporate social responsibility.
(4) "There is sufficient evidence... of past surface temperatures to say with a high level of confidence that the last few decades of the 20th century were warmer than any comparable period in the last 400 years.
(5) The results indicate that the legislated increase in the age of eligibility for full Social Security benefits beginning in the 21st century will have relatively small effects on the ages of retirement and benefit acceptance.
(6) We asked our team to design the 22nd century newsroom.
(7) Photograph: Dan Chung Around 220,000 live in this mud-brick labyrinth; some homes date back five centuries.
(8) During the twentieth century complex medical and social changes have resulted in changing attitudes to and experiences with death.
(9) For more than half a century, Saudi leaders manipulated the United States by feeding our oil addiction, lavishing money on politicians, helping to finance American wars, and buying billions of dollars in weaponry from US companies.
(10) The concept of anticipation, the occurrence of a genetic disorder at progressively earlier ages in successive generations, has been debated from the early years of this century, with myotonic dystrophy as the most striking example.
(11) Urban ambulance systems emerged in the second half of the 19th century as an outgrowth of military experiences in both Europe and America.
(12) Gerson Zweifach, general counsel for both News Corp and 21st Century Fox , Murdoch’s film and TV business, said: “We are grateful that this matter has been concluded and acknowledge the fairness and professionalism of the Department of Justice throughout this investigation.” It is understood there has been no background settlement with the Department of Justice in order to avoid a full-blown investigation, contrary to speculation in New York over a year ago that the company was looking at a possible payment of over $850m.
(13) Barbacoas is a small port town in south-west Colombia, which linked the southern regions of the country in the 19th and 20th century.
(14) It has been a place of pilgrimage for many centuries and a tourist attraction probably since Roman times.
(15) His first ball reaches Ali at hip height and he flicks him to fine leg for a boundary that takes him to a quite epic century.
(16) It begins with the origins of treatment in the self-help temperance movement of the 1830s and 1840s and the founding of the first inebriate homes, tracing in the United States the transformation of these small, private, spiritually inclined programs into the medically dominated, quasipublic inebriate asylums of the late 19th century.
(17) A review of the literature reveals that the numerous procedures now available to repair the nose had already been devised by the middle of the nineteenth century in Germany and France as well as in England.
(18) The basic study of medicine of the early 18th century is described with the help of the example of Halle university.
(19) Nevertheless, the historic poll is being touted by foreign governments as the first credible election in half a century.
(20) The impetus for the creation of an epidemiology of mental illness came from the work of late nineteenth century social scientists concerned with understanding individual and social behavior and applying their findings to social problems.
Huguenot
Definition:
(n.) A French Protestant of the period of the religious wars in France in the 16th century.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Britain was a liberal country – “a tolerant decent nation”, as Blair put it – which was proud to have provided a home to the Huguenots fleeing Louis XIV, the Jews fleeing tsarism and Nazism, the Poles and Hungarians fleeing communism and the Ugandan Asians fleeing Idi Amin.
(2) Since both families have French Huguenot ancestors and since there are 7 confirmed and 5 reported cases of B-SS in these two families, founder effect may be operating and causing this rare disorder to occur more frequently in this population group than would otherwise be expected.
(3) His father, Wilfred Paradine Frost, was a Methodist minister of Huguenot descent; David reportedly more resembled his mother Mona.
(4) This is why it has survived so long, although, ironically, it lay in an oubliette of relative obscurity until denounced by a Huguenot exile, who claimed that it was Catherine de' Medici's favourite book and a work that encouraged bloodthirsty, cynical statecraft.
(5) It is because different ethnic groups came to live together in one small island that we first made a virtue of tolerance, welcoming and included successive waves of settlers - from Saxons and Normans to Huguenots and Jews and Asians and African-Caribbeans - and recognising plural identities.
(6) As many of those buried in the crypt were Huguenots interest centred on the relation between weaving and osteoarthritis of the hands but none was found using a case-control study.
(7) Sarrazin, a former finance minister for the state of Berlin, is descended from Huguenots, French Protestants who found refuge in Germany and elsewhere from Catholic persecution in the 17th century.
(8) Huguenots were persecuted and murdered en masse, and they responded in kind, hunting down Catholic priests like wild animals in the parts of the country that they controlled (one Huguenot captain was said to have worn a necklace of clerics’ ears).
(9) These persons were found exclusively among people of Afrikaner descent, whose origins are mainly derived from Dutch and French-Huguenot stock.
(10) He lodged for a time in London with a family of French Huguenot refugees; a number of the plays, from Love's Labour's Lost to Othello , are drawn from French or Italian sources, quite apart from their author's numerous imaginative grand tours through the worlds of ancient Greece and Rome.
(11) But it is not just me or the millions of British people with Huguenot ancestors in their families.
(12) In the 16th and 17th centuries 50,000 Protestant Huguenots fled Catholic persecution in France – stealing across the Channel in bales of hay or casks of wine.
(13) He brought his own perspective to it: for instance, I’d worked with pearls in a classical way before I met Lee, but then with him we took a pearl and set it into a taxidermied pheasant’s claw, and made an earring.” Joyce was also a keen amateur genealogist, who could trace her family back to the Huguenots who had settled in Spitalfields.
(14) Hostilities continued inside and outside the formal boundaries of open religious war, and only completely ended when the Huguenots were mostly converted, killed, or expelled.
(15) On my father's side, the family is descended from Huguenots from Lyon.
(16) From the Huguenots to the Irish dockworkers to the Windrush generation, immigration over the centuries has made modern Britain the country we love.
(17) On 24 August 1572, Charles IX of France ordered the assassination of prominent Huguenot Protestants who were in Paris for the wedding of their leader, Henry of Navarre, to the king’s own sister.
(18) No.” In contrast, he said, previous waves of immigration by Huguenots, Jews and Ugandan Asians became integrated in society while often maintaining private observance of their faiths and traditions.
(19) Several of his family decided to emigrate to Great Britain with the Huguenot movement.
(20) The influence of the Huguenots upon the practice of dentistry in England has received so little attention that their contribution has been largely overlooked, even though the competence of one particular family, the Hemets, led to royal appointments for three successive generations.