a. and sb. Obs. [ad. L. contemporāne-us contemporary (see below); cf. F. contemporain (16th c., Montaigne).
In 18th c. sometimes erroneously made cotemporan, after cotemporary: see CONTEMPORARY.
A. adj. = CONTEMPORANEOUS.
c. 1425. Wyntoun, Cron., III. iii. 162. Gad þat tyme and Natan Prophetis ware contemporan Tyll Dawie Kyng of Israel. Ibid., V. ix. 460. And sex Emperouris þan To þai Papis contemporane.
1571. Hanmer, Chron. Irel. (1633), 76, marg. Learned men of Irish birth, contemporane with Fursœus.
B. sb. A contemporary.
a. 1734. North, Exam., I. iii. § 92 (1740), 187. [In] Hopes, that when Times will bear it, some of the Cotemporans, faithful Historians … will suffer their Labours to come forth.
