tercentenary

Preposition: of

• birth: This year the Conference welcomed guests from 61 partner churches following a World Church consultation marking the tercentenary of the birth of John Wesley.

Converse of object

• celebrate: In late 1988 it returned to The Dale, Chester, to celebrate the Tercentenary on the Roodee in 1989.
• commemorate: To commemorate the Tercentenary in 1989, the County Boroughs each presented a bench seat and the Regiment commissioned new gates.
• mark: For example, in 1990 the Orange Order held a special parade in Belfast to mark the Tercentenary of the Battle of the Boyne.

Modifies a noun

• celebration: During the tercentenary celebrations of 1884, Louis Pasteur visited Edinburgh University.
• year: Today, in Wesley's tercentenary year, his Methodist following numbers 33 million throughout.
• essay: Tercentenary Essays, General editor, Peter Williams ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985 ), pp.