nongenary
(nɒnˈdʒiːnərɪ)
[f. L. nongēnārius containing nine hundred, after centenary n. 3.]
A nine hundredth anniversary, or the celebrations connected with it.
| 1926 Fowler Mod. Eng. Usage 72/2 A list of not intolerable forms is here offered... Centē{p}nary,..octingē{p}nary, nongē{p}nary, millē{p}nary. 1965 E. Gowers Fowler's Mod. Eng. Usage (ed. 2) 83/1 Nor is anyone, however passionate a supporter of etymological correctness, likely to try to introduce sescenary, septingenary, octingenary, or nongenary. 1966 New Statesman 8 Apr. 511/2 The painters are in no way concerned with the nongenary of the Battle of Hastings. |