Meaning

(rare) Synonym of duodecimvirate: a group of twelve..

Definitions by Sense

1. (rare) Synonym of duodecimvirate: a group of twelve.
2. (rare, attested in the past participle only) To kill one twelfth of a group of people, especially by lot.
3. (rare, attested in the past participle only) To divide into twelfths; to divide duodecimally.

Example Sentences

We affirm, that to all eternity the apostles are to be twelve, among all the redeemed, a conspicuous, glorious, unassociated duodecimate.

There was there impanelled to serve as jurors [a] duodecimate of “impartial and unwitting persons”.

The French squadron…opened fire at a distance far beyond the range of our rifles, and the carnage in our ranks was fearful. We were being gradually duodecimated.

The barbarians were duodecimated — i.e., one out of every twelve was beheaded.

If they had duodecimated a legion…rather than…decimate them…, two [fewer] guys per unit would have had to be killed.

He has duodecimated his difficulties by choosing twelve boy “heroes.”

Already [Sir James Frazer] has epitomized, and so to speak, duodecimated, the Golden Bough, while Lady Frazer has culled a florilegium from his works.

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