centesimate

v. 由一百人中选出一人受罚, 以一儆百

词形变化

centesimated centesimates 三单 centesimates centesimating centesimating 现在分词 centesimated 过去式 centesimated 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To select one person in every hundred for a punishment.

词源

First attested in 1753; borrowed from Latin centēsimātus, perfect passive participle of the Latin centēsimō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from centēsimus (“hundredth”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix); compare tertiate, quintate, sextate, septimate, decimate, and duodecimate.

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