Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of equal age, duration, or period; coeval.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of the same age with another; beginning to exist at the same time; coeval. Also spelled coœtaneous.
Wiktionary
- adj. Belonging to the same age, era or period; coeval or contemporary.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of the same age; beginning to exist at the same time; contemporaneous.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of the same period
Etymologies
- From Late Latin coaetaneus ("one of the same age"). (Wiktionary)
- From Late Latin coaetāneus, a contemporary : Latin co-, co- + Latin aetās, age; see aiw- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Oxygenated blood from the gills is fed to the muscles via large subsurface coetaneous arteries.”
The Huffington Post: Dr. Reese Halter: Protecting Great White Sharks
“Persons who suffer from this condition report a range of coetaneous symptoms including crawling, biting and stinging sensations; granules, threads or black speck-like materials on or beneath the skin; and/or lesions e.g., rashes or sores and some sufferers also report systemic manifestations such as fatigue, mental confusion, short term memory loss, joint pain, and changes in vision.”
“The details are sickening, but … we will but mention that running sores and coetaneous sic diseases of the most painful as well as contagious character infected the entire load….”
“We have shown that entire sanctification is coetaneous with the baptism with the Holy Ghost, in fact, that the two experiences are in an important sense identical, or, at least, so related to each other that whoever has one has the other.”
“The entire sanctification of the heart and the Holy Ghost baptism are coetaneous experiences, and must not be divorced.”
“Sanctification and the baptism with the Spirit are therefore coetaneous -- they take place at the same time.”
“Long search for a reliable, coetaneous picture of one of the larger ships of the merchant service of England, in the Pilgrim period, has been rewarded by the discovery of the excel lent "cut" of such a craft, taken from M. Blundeville's "New and Necessarie Treatise of Navigation," published early in the seventeenth century.”
The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete
“Each has indeed a certain relation to the other, and there is no morality which is not, in some degree, also piety; both have the same root, namely, the personality; but the two form, nevertheless, independent branches strictly coetaneous.”
“His presence in this world was coetaneous with the other families of mankind: here he has toiled with a varied fortune; and here under God -- _his_ God -- he will, in the process of time, work out all the sublime problems connected with his future as a man and a brother.”
“Marriage among most African tribes is a coetaneous contract.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘coetaneous’.
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phrontistery - c
from phrontistery.info
czardas, cytometer, cytology, cytheromania, cystoscope, cystolith, cyrenaic, cypseline, cyprinoid, cyphonism, cynophobia, cytogenesis and 1298 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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maygra
apropos, advantageous, perception, discombobulated, adumbrate, apogee, perihelion, mortmain, solitudinous, mediastinus, asumbrative, traveler and 498 more...
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A Matter Of Time
Favorite time-related words.
vespertine, twilight, gloaming, eftsoon, eventide, dawn, eos, dusk, witching hour, ephemeral, candlemark, autumnal and 122 more...
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words of collect
A Heidegger Collection - a log of logues
leech, lectern, lection, lecture, legend, legible, legion, lesson, coil, collect, diligent, elect and 123 more...
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
zeugma, ziggurat, xiphoid, xeric, whizgigging, whangdoodle, viviparous, vivific, vinolent, verjuice, vellicate, velleity and 1193 more...
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19 c.
some of the interesting words i've had to look up while reading 19th century lit
maugre, connate, alembic, azote, vaticination, valetudinarian, dight, scutcheon, lammergeyer, chamois, asseverate, prebendary and 199 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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today's word
copemate, quiddity, ere, maugre, argal, cultivar, exurb, spokesmodel, rollick, logy, cadastral, corpulent and 259 more...
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jmjarmstrong's list
Words that I used to know.
geloscopy, hunker, willy nilly, harum scarum, whacko, meh, nork, misunderestimate, atrabiliousness, luftmensch, auxanometer, hyperhedonia and 1948 more...
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rduke's Words
misguggle, ken, sere, etiolated, gelid, digladiate, popinjay, bathykolpian, conglaciation, hyperborean, callipygian, vagile and 1253 more...
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words of merge and emerge
merge, emerging, immerse, submerge, merganser, mesh, mustard, deep, depth, dip, python, typhon and 80 more...
Tweets
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jmjarmstrong JM reckons all art was coetaneous art at some stage. Oct 5, 2010