CENTURY, in chronology, the space of one hundred years. This method of computing by centuries is generally observed in church history, commencing from
the time of our Saviour's incarnation: in which sense we say the first century, the second century, &c.
CENTURIONS of Magdeburg, a famous ecclesiastical history, ranged into 13 centuries, carried down to the year 1298, compiled by several hundred protestants of Magdeburg, the chief of whom was Flaccus Illyricus.