Centuriation
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A method of land measurement used in Ancient Rome, characterised by the regular layout of a square grid traced using surveyors' instruments. uncountable
"One particularly aggressive proponent of centuriation was Emperor Septimius Severus, who ruled from A.D. 192 to 211 and whose 400,000-man army was spread across an empire of 70 million people, from the Atlantic to the eastern shores of the Black Sea and from northern England to southern Egypt."
Example
More examples"One particularly aggressive proponent of centuriation was Emperor Septimius Severus, who ruled from A.D. 192 to 211 and whose 400,000-man army was spread across an empire of 70 million people, from the Atlantic to the eastern shores of the Black Sea and from northern England to southern Egypt."
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin centuriātiō.