What's the difference between tricentenary and tricentennial?

Tricentenary


Definition:

  • (a.) Including, or relating to, the interval of three hundred years; tercentenary.
  • (n.) A period of three centuries, or three hundred years, also, the three-hundredth anniversary of any event; a tercentenary.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His work was published in 1691, and on the occasion of the Tricentenary of its publication, the "First International Symposium on Phlebotomine Sandflies" was organized.
  • (2) It is particularly appropriate for an assemblage of protozoologists to pay homage to this intrepid "philosopher in little things," a man with an insatiable curiosity about his wee animalcules, on the tricentenary of his discovery of them, since it was an event of such long-lasting significance.

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