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n. - The 400th anniversary (or the celebration of it).

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  • This is the quatercentenary of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra!
  • That sounds like an oxymoron, but it's actually a quatercentenary.
  • Buchanan's quatercentenary was celebrated at different centres in Scotland in 1906, and was the occasion of several encomia and studies.
  • The year 1926 is therefore the tercentenary of the publication of Deane's "Spadacrene Anglica," and Stanhope's "News out of Yorkshire," and may also be regarded as the...
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