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Definition of Tercentenaries
1. tercentenary [n] - See also: tercentenary
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tercentenaries
Literary usage of Tercentenaries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bookman (1910)
"... and tercentenaries are still looming up before the weary mind. I have been
disappointed in THE BOOKMAN lately; but this month it is its old, buoyant, ..."
2. The Dial edited by Francis Fisher Browne (1916)
"The Shakespeare tercentenaries of 1916 and 1864. Emily F. Brown. One Reader's
Reactions to "Spoon Hiver." Orvis Б. A MANY-GIFTED WOMAN. ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1864)
"It is something to see real Benedictine monks, under a real Abbot Henry the Fifth,
in an Abbey which kept its thousandth year—shaming all tercentenaries—a ..."
4. The Dial edited by Francis Fisher Browne (1904)
"In these matters, we are already on the eve of a long series of tercentenaries,
and we doubt not that, when the time comes, the Dakota» will be found taking ..."
5. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year ...Encyclopedias and dictionaries (1888)
"... ministerial crisis, De Avila cabinet formed, ii, 641 ; the Jesuits, iv, 628 ;
tercentenaries of Camoens and Vasco do Gama, iv, 628 ; national debt, vi, ..."
6. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1905)
"Midway between the tercentenaries of Cer£ V • vantes in Spain and that of Rembrandt,
next year, at Leyden, Antwerp is interposing, as her contribution to ..."
7. The English Illustrated Magazine (1888)
"... and centenaries, and bi-centenaries, and tercentenaries should have made such
celebrations a little too common. The eighth of last February was the ..."
8. Assimilative Memory: Or, How to Attend and Never Forget by Marcus Dwight Larrowe (1896)
"56 and 57—In. and Ex.—Both tercentenaries, and one reckons from birth and the
other from death. 57 and 58—In. and Ex.—Tercentenary ceremonies, ..."
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