centesimation

发音

UK /ˌsɛntiːsɪˈmeɪʃən/

词形变化

centesimations 复数 centesimations

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

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

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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.

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

词源

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

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