Plurisecular
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Of or related to a span of several centuries, centuries-old. literary, rare
"M. Charles Rabot, secretary of the French Commission on Glaciers, is the author of a pamphlet entitled "Essai de Chronologie des Variations Glaciaires"... A complete primary oscillation, i.e. an increase and decrease, appears to have a duration of one or two centuries... There seems further to be a plurisecular period covering, in the case of the Alps, about three centuries."
Example
More examples"M. Charles Rabot, secretary of the French Commission on Glaciers, is the author of a pamphlet entitled "Essai de Chronologie des Variations Glaciaires"... A complete primary oscillation, i.e. an increase and decrease, appears to have a duration of one or two centuries... There seems further to be a plurisecular period covering, in the case of the Alps, about three centuries."
Etymology
From pluri- (“multi-, many”) + secular (“of or related to centuries”), chiefly after French pluriséculaire.
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