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centesimation

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The punishment of one man in a hundred, as in cases of mutiny or wide-spread desertion from an army.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Mil.) The infliction of the death penalty upon one person in every hundred, as in cases of mutiny.

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  • noun rare The selection by lot of every hundredth man (of an army or group of prisoners or mutineers) for execution.

Etymologies

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From the Latin centēsimātiō, from centēsimō, from centēsimus ("hundredth"); compare quintation, septimation, decimation, vicesimation, and tricesimation.

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