centuried

Adjective

 * 1)  Having existed for centuries; ancient.
 * 2) * 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.
 * 1) * 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 . ..
 * 1) * 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."
 * Here he finds "concrete existence," for instance "hated irony" and dialogue and jokes and "the centuried roots of jazz."