COTEMPORARY, adjective [Latin , time.] Living or being at the same time; as cotemporary authors. Josephus was cotemporary with Vespasian. COTEMPORARY, adjective [Latin , time.] One who lives at the same time with another. [I consider this word as preferable to contemporary, as being more easily pronounced.]
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