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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of putting to death every twentieth man.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The act of putting to death every twentieth man.
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- noun Alternative form of
vicesimation .
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(noun) - (1) The act of putting to death every twentieth man. Related to decimate.
--Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, 1755
January 19, 2018