Verb

God sometimes decimates or tithes delinquent persons, and they died for a common crime, according as God hath cast their lot in the decrees of predestination.

Said to have been martyred as a Christian legionary commander of late Roman times for having refused an imperial order to kill one in ten (that is, decimate [,] in the Roman meaning of the word) of the soldiers of another legion which had gone into revolt

where Caesar threatened to disband Legio X after a mutiny. The men begged him to decimate them instead, and Caesar relented in the same way that Titus refrained from executing this cavalryman after his comrades’ appeal.

Shall we decimate them? That sounds good, nice word. Remove one-tenth of the population!

Out of nine hundred, ninety will be ejected, that the production of the others may be increased one-tenth. Here, then, we have a society which is continually decimating itself[.]

I have heard you are as poor as a decimated Cavalier [referring to Cromwell's ten per cent. income-tax on Cavaliers], and had not one foot of land in all the world.

In addition, an ordinance was published that “all who had ever borne arms for the king, or declared themselves to be of the royal party, should be decimated , that is, pay a tenth part of all the estate which they had left, to support the charge which the commonwealth was put to

In this dramatic picture, the nation is literally decimated , and even the tenth which remains is subjected to a further destruction.

comments about the Rangers’ decimated' pitching staff. Jay commented to the other drunks that although the word '''''decimated is often used to mean “demolished” or “destroyed,” it literally means “reduced to one-tenth of its former number.”

African slaves were needed to replace Native American populations that had been decimated (literally reduced to one-tenth their size) by European conquest.

Yet such population [viz. 300,000 males slain] is incredible; and the second or third city of Italy need not repine if we only decimate the numbers of the present text. Both Milan and Genoa revived in less than thirty years.

In the New World, European colonists initially enslaved Native Americans, decimating the indigenous populations to one-tenth of their original sizes.

It [England] had decimated itself for a question which involved no principle, and led to no result.

He then declared that he would decimate Legio IX, but allowed himself to be ‘persuaded’ by the pleas of officers and men only to execute twelve of the 120 soldiers seen as ringleaders.

A decimate tool allows us to obtain a more coarse-grained view of the data over the full (n)-dimensional space.

However, many times it is more practical to decimate existing high-res models because of time, money or manpower issues.

Given this initial fine mesh, we smooth and decimate it to a desired mesh resolution.