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coæval

coæval

See also: coaeval

English

Adjective

coæval ‎(comparative more coæval, superlative most coæval)

Alternative spelling of coeval
- 1775 CE, Edmund Burke, The Annual Register For The Year 1775, page #137:
  We may allow the loweſt of them to be four, or, if you will, near ſix thouſand years old : for Ætna may have burned from remote ages, fed by thoſe ſubterraneous fires, which ſome ſuppoſe coæval, or nearly coæval with our earth.