(rare, chiefly literary) Having existed for centuries; ancient.Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed. (1989)
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.
1912, Amy Lowell, "March Evening" in A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass:Above, the old weathercock groans, but remembersCreaking, to turn, in its centuried rust.
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 anguishAnd human hope, and that dark wood-mold sweeterThan 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."
