tercentenary
tercentenary
Definition
ter·cen·te·nary (tʉr′sen ten′ər ē, tər sen′tə ner′ē)
tercentenary
Usage Examples
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.
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