Obs. rare. Also -are. [ad. med.L. vintēnārius, f. vintēnum twenty: cf. next.] A military officer in command of twenty men.
c. 1450. Contin. Brut, 540. Sir Iohn Ward, knyght, with x Centenaries … and viij vyntenaries. Ibid., 541. Sir Howell Griffith … with … ij C and iij vintenares, and iiij MlCC Walshmen.
