centenier
(ˈsɛntənɪə(r))
Forms: 4 centener, 6 centenyer, sentener, 6–7 centiner, -ere, 7 centinier, 6– centenier.
[a. F. centenier:—L. centēnārius (see centenary), in 4th c. used for ‘a centurion’.]
† 1. A centurion. Obs.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 19907 A centener, Cornelius. 1523 Ld. Berners Froiss. I. cccxlix. 559 He..ordayned and made secretely capitayns of the whyte hattes, as Senteners, and Muquateners. 1577 Hellowes Gueuara's Gold. Ep. 178 Pilate..sent..a Centenier to discouer a truth. 1580 North Plutarch 961 Cornelius the Centiner, chief of this Legation. 1603 Florio Montaigne ii. xxxiv. (1632) 415 His [Cæsar's] Centeniers offered him..to find him a man at Armes. |
† 2. = centurian. Obs.
| 1619 T. Milles Times Store-House i. vi. 19/2 They are an hundred, chosen out of euerie Towne or Village, and thereon were tearmed Centeniers, or Centurions. |
3. A police-officer in Jersey.
| 1862 Ansted Channel Isl. iv. xxiii. (ed. 2) 521 Each parish has also two centeniers, except St. Helier's, where there are six. 1880 Jersey Weekly Express 13 Nov. 3/2 Charged by Centenier George C. Godfray with having been picked up dead drunk in the Royal Hall, Peter-street. |