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(Latin: a suffix forming adjectives from nouns ending in -ary; a person who, a thing that; a person who is a part of something, pertaining to one's state or condition; a person who has a connection with or belief in the stated subject; an advocate of something; a native or inhabitant of someplace; someone of a certain age)


supercentenarian, super-centenarian
A supercentenarian is someone who has reached the age of 110 years or more, something achieved by only one in a thousand centenarians.

About one supercentenarian in fifteen lives to 114 years or more. The term has been around from around the 1970s and was further popularized in 1991 by William Strauss and Neil Howe, in their book Generations.

Early references tend to mean simply "someone well over 100" but the 110-and-over cutoff is apparently the accepted criterion by demographers.

superseptuagenarian, super-septuagenarian
A person who is seventy to seventy-nine years of age and in extraordinary physical condition.
supralapsarian
In theology, one of that class of Calvinists who believed that God's decree of election determined that man should fall, in order that the opportunity might be given for securing the redemption of a part of the human race, the decree of salvation being conceived of as formed before or beyond, and not after or following, the lapse, or fall.
tesserarian
A reference to dice or gambling.
totalitarian
1. Of or pertaining to a system of government that tolerates only one political party, to which all other institutions are subordinated, and which usually demands the complete subservience of the individual to the State.
2. A leader or member of a totalitarian party; an advocate or supporter of totalitarianism.
tricentenarian
A person who is three-hundred years old.
trigenarian
1. A person who is in her/his thirties.
2. Someone who is from thirty to thirty-nine years old.
trinitarian
Someone who believes in the Christian doctrine of the Trinity or the union of three divine persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit all of which exist as one God.
turbellarian
1. Belonging to the Turbellaria, a class of platyhelminths or flatworms, mostly aquatic and having cilia on the body surface.
2. Etymology: from New Latin Turbellāria, class name, from Latin turbella, "bustle"; diminutive of turba, "turmoil" based on the motion of their cilia in the water.
ubiquitarian
1. A reference to the doctrine; especially, as advocated by Luther, that the body of Christ is omnipresent and therefore exists in the Eucharistic bread.
2. One of a school of Lutheran divines which held that the body of Christ is present everywhere, and especially in the eucharist, in virtue of his omnipresence.
unitarian
A Christian who does not believe in the doctrine of the Trinity (Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit).
utilitarian
Of philosophy, principles, etc.; consisting in or based upon utility; specifically with regards to the greatest good or happiness of the greatest number as the chief consideration or rule of morality.
valetudinarian
A weak or sickly individual, especially one constantly and morbidly concerned with matters of health.
vegeterian
1. One who lives wholly or principally upon vegetable foods; a person who on principle abstains from any form of animal food, or at least such as is obtained by the direct destruction of life.
2. A reference to animals that live on vegetables.
3. Consisting of vegetables or plants.
verbarian
1. Having to do with words.
2. An inventor or coiner of words.

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