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Terms vs Centesimation - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between terms and centesimation

is that terms is while centesimation is .

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    centesimation

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  • * 1763 , A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences , second edition, 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.
  • * 1822 , Reginald Heber, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor XIII, page 413
    • 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 .
  • * 1980 , Stephen Spender and Irving Kristol [eds.], Encounter LIV, page 71
    • Centesimation …carries only one-tenth the sensation value of “decimation”.
  • * 1992 , Laurence Urdang, Three Toed Sloths and Seven League Boots , 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.

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