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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 684 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CENTURY (from
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Lat. centuria, a
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division of a
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hundred men)  , the name for a unit in the
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Roman
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army, originally amounting to one
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hundred men, and for one of the divisions into which the Roman
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people was separated for voting purposes (see
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CoMITIA) . The word is applied to any
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group of one hundred, and more particularly to a
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period of a hundred years, and to the successive periods of a hundred years, dating before or after the
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birth of
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Christ . The "
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Century-plant " is a name given to the
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Agave (q.v.), or
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American
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aloe, from the supposition that it flowered once only in every hundred years .

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