Centesimation vs Centesimate - What's the difference?
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* 1763 , A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences , second edition,
* 1822 , Reginald Heber, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor XIII,
* 1897 , The Columbian Cyclopedia VI, “
* 1980 , Stephen Spender and Irving Kristol [eds.], Encounter LIV,
* 1992 , Laurence Urdang, Three Toed Sloths and Seven League Boots ,
To select one person in every hundred for a punishment
Centesimate is a related term of centesimation.
As a noun centesimation
is the {{l/en|selection}} by {{l/en|lot}} of every {{l/en|hundredth}} man (of an {{l/en|army}} or {{l/en|group}} of {{l/en|prisoner|prisoners}} or {{l/en|mutineer|mutineers}}) for {{l/en|execution}}.As a verb centesimate is
to select one person in every hundred for a punishment.centesimation
English
Noun
(head)page 522
- CENTESIMATION , a milder kind of military puni?hment, in ca?es of de?ertion, mutiny, and the like, when only every hundredth man is executed.
page 413
- Sometimes the criminals were decimated by lot, as appears in Polybius, Tacitus, Plutarch, Appian, Dio, Julius Capitolinus, who also mentions a centesimation .
centesimate”
- To inflict the punishment of centesimation .
page 71
- Centesimation …carries only one-tenth the sensation value of “decimation”.
page 151
- 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.