Centesimation

//ˌsɛntiːsɪˈmeɪʃən//

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centesimate

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10)20)30)5)7)decimation (1 quintation (1 septimation (1 tricesimation (1 vicesimation (1

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decimation quintation septimation tricesimation vicesimation

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army centesimate execution group hundredth lot mutineer prisoner selection

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canfediant noun (execution of every hundredth man)

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CENTESIMATION, a milder kind of military puniſhment, in caſes of deſertion, mutiny, and the like, when only every hundredth man is executed.

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Sometimes the criminals were decimated by lot, as appears in Polybius, Tacitus, Plutarch, Appian, Dio, Julius Capitolinus, who also mentions a centesimation.

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1897, The Columbian Cyclopedia VI, “centesimate” To inflict the punishment of centesimation.

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Centesimation…carries only one-tenth the sensation value of “decimation”.

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