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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D)
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CATES, k[=a]tz, _n.pl._ dainty food. CATGUT. See CAT. CATHARIST, kath'ar-ist, _n._ one professing a higher standard of purity in life and doctrine, a puritan: esp. a member of a ...
volume covering a century; CENT[=U]'RION, among the Romans, the commander
of a hundred men.--CENTURY PLANT (see AGAVE). [L. _centuria_--_centum_.] CEORL, churl, _n._ before the Norman Conquest an ordinary freeman not of noble birth. [A.S.] CEPHALASPIS,...