centaur (sentar)

[L. centaur us, Centaur.- Museo Capitol i no, Rome. of Achilles, and Pholus, the friend of Hercules, were beneficent cen taurs. In art the centaur was originally represented as a complete man, to body were attached, behind, the barrel and hind quarters of a horse; later this ungainly combination wad abandoned, was universally replaced by the form in which the human body to the waist took the place of the head and neck of the horse. Examples of the primitive type of centaur survive on archaic painted vases, in a few small bronzes, terra-cottas, etc., among the reliefs from the temple of A os, and in certain wall-paintings. Come, come, be every one officious To make this banquet, which I wish may prove More stern and bloody than the Centaurs ' feast. 884 the heavens in order of brightne . These two stars are situated near each other on the parallel of 60° south, a little east of the Southern Cro . Centaur us has, besides, Rigi The Constellation Centaur us. center of a great man: as, the centenary of Burns; the centenary of the Constitution of the United States. [Now the usual meaning.] -3. A cen tenarian. IMG:content-0018.jpg:[graphic] Centenaries, he thought, must have been ravens and tortoises. Southey, Doctor, cxxxii. centeniert, n. [ centenier , a centurion, centenarius , a centurion, a minor judge: see centenarius .] One of a division containing a hundred. They are an hundred chosen out of every town and village, and thereon were termed centeniers or centurians. Time's Storehouse .