centory
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]centory (countable and uncountable, plural centories)
- (obsolete) Alternative form of centaury
- 1640, John Parkinson, “Centaurium majus. The greater Centory”, in Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants. Or, An Herball of a Large Extent: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, →OCLC, page 465:
- Neither dare I hold with the moderne errour of many, that hold the roote of this great Centory to be the Rhaponticum of Dioſcorides, Galen, and others […]