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