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coetaneous, a.|kəʊiːˈteɪnɪəs|
Also coæt-.
[f. late L. coætāne-us one of the same age (f. co- together + ætāt- age + āne-us adj. suffix) + -ous.]
= coeval in all senses. Const. with, † to, unto.
1. Coming into existence or arising at the same time; of contemporary or simultaneous origin and antiquity.
1608Bp. J. King Serm. 5 Nov. 38 A parallele to this, coetaneous..in time. 1622–62Heylin Cosmogr. i. (1682) 100 Corrivals with the Jesuites..and almost coætaneous in point of time, are the Oratorians. a1711Ken Edmund Poet. Wks. 1721 II. 134 The sick man reviving by degrees Feels coetaneous Pleasure, Cure, and ease. 1833Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 345 The Pyrenees and other coetaneous chains, such as the northern Apennines. 1853J. W. Gibbs Philol. Studies (1857) 48 The gradual, not coetaneous, development of the kinds of words or parts of speech.
2. Of the same age, equal in age.
1649Bp. Hall Cases Consc. iii. i. 216 We being but of yesterday, they coetaneous with the world and time itselfe. 1682Sir T. Browne Chr. Mor. 86 Anticipate the virtues of age..So may st thou be coetaneous unto thy elders, and a father unto thy contemporaries. 1795Southey Joan of Arc vii. 459 Then he would sit Beneath the coetaneous oak.
3. Existing or living at the same time; contemporary.
1649Roberts Clavis Bibl. 332 That land seems not to have received its name of Uz coetaneous to Abraham. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 721 Some of his coætaneous Medicks. 1791Cowper Iliad i. 315 Two generations past of mortals born In Pylus, coëtaneous with himself. 1841–4Emerson Ess. Experience (1885) II. 361 Bear..with this coetaneous growth of the parts.
4. Of equal duration, coextensive in duration.
1627–77Feltham Resolves ii. xxxiii. 226 To ascribe a coetaneous being of the world with God, is to make it God. 1655W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. i. 342 Our troubles and our lives are coetaneous, live and die together. 1836Landor Peric. & Asp. Wks. 1846 II. 435 Little of life is remaining, but my happiness will be coetaneous with it.
Hence coeˈtaneously adv., coeˈtaneousness.
1818Dwight Theol. (1830) I. xiv. 240 Whatever exists in the divine Mind exists co-etaneously and co-eternally with all other things which exist in it. 1727–31Bailey vol. II, Coetaneousness, the being of the same age with. 1848R. Hamilton Disq. Sabbath i. 15 It derives all its authority of proof out of its coëtaneousness. |
