Definition of Saeculum

1. a geological age [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Saeculum

sados
sadr
sads
sadster
sadsters
sadza
sadzas
sae
saeculum (current term)
saeculums
saeptum
saeta
saetas
saeter
saeters
safari
safari jacket
safari jackets
safari park
safari parks
safari suit
safari suits
safari supper

Literary usage of Saeculum

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The oldest English texts by Henry Sweet, Durham Cathedral (1885)
"Et Og regem Basan quoniam in saeculum misericordia his 7 Balde ... usic of honda saeculum misericordia ejus 24. ..."

2. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1891)
"There is the saeculum civile and the saeculum naturale. In the years 363 Bc and 263 we find a recognition of the saeculum civile in the appointment of a ..."

3. Sancti Aurelii Augustini Episcopi De Civitate Dei Libri XXII. by Augustinus, (1877)
"... il- lud usque in saeculum et usque in saeculum saeculorum; 5 et paulo post: Regnum, inquit, eius regnum sempiternum; et alia quae ad hoc pertinentia in ..."

4. Ovid: Selections for the Use of Schools by Ovid (1877)
"The duration of the 'saeculum' was a theme of controversy among the Romans themselves in the days of Augustus. The historians and antiquaries seem all to ..."

5. Anglo-Saxon and early English psalter: now first printed from manuscripts in by Joseph Stevenson (1847)
"Solem in potestatem diei quoniam in saeculum misericordia his ejus 9. Lunam et stellas in potestatem noctis quoniam in saeculum monan ..."

6. The Journal of Philology by William George Clark, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, Henry Jackson (1876)
"... would corre- »pund with the use of the great majority of numerals in Latin, aod especially with that of the two neuter nouns centum and •At saeculum. ..."

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