Meaning of centesimation | Babel Free

Definitions

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

countable, rare, uncountable

Examples

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

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

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

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

“Decimate, to select⟳ by lot and put⟳ to death every tenth man of (a captured army or body of prisoners or mutineers) […] Compare⟳ 1/100: centesimation.”

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