Centum in A Sentence

    1

    For Wycliffe and his adherent John Purvey (probably the author of the Commentarius in Apocalypsin ante centum annos editus, edited in 1528 by Luther), as on the other hand for Hus, the conviction that the papacy is essentially Antichrist is absolute.

    2

    He designates it, however, only a second edition of Briggs's Arithmetica logarithmica, the title running Arithmetica logarithmica sive Logarithmorum Chiliades centum,.

    3

    In calculations for wind pressures, the working stresses set forth in the code may be increased by fifty per centum.

    4

    In legal documents the rate is sometimes expressed as a certain sum of money " per centum per annum "; here " centum " must be taken to mean " boo."

    5

    In no case shall the overturning moment due to wind pressure exceed seventy-five per centum of the moment of stability of the structure.

    6

    It is the ancient Centum Cellae, founded by Trajan.

    7

    Popular etymology identified the symbol with the initial letter of centum, " hundred."