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/ˌsɛntiːsɪˈmeɪʃən/ · noun
(military history, rare) The selection by lot of every hundredth man (of an army or group of prisoners or mutineers) for execution..
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, a milder kind of military puniſhment, in caſes of deſertion, mutiny, and the like, when only every hundredth man is executed.
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.
Use centesimation when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Centesimation means (military history, rare) 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.
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