a. and sb. Obs. Also 7 coætanean, coetanian. [f. as COETANEOUS + -AN.]
A. adj. = COETANEOUS.
1616. T. Godwin, Moses & Aaron, I. xii. 69. Jehu (with whom Jonadab was coetanean).
1641. Earl Monm., trans. Biondi’s Civil Wars Eng., IV–V. 109. Coetanean with the Plannets.
B. sb. A contemporary, a coeval.
1636. Prynne, Unbish. Tim., 105. John Wickliffe, and his Coætanean Richard Fitzralphe.
1694. J. Smith, Doctr. Lord’s Day, 52. They who … were either before Moses or his Coetanians.
