Citations:centesimation


 * 1763, A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (2nd ed.), volume 1, page 522, “centeſimation”
 * CENTESIMATION, a milder kind of military puniſhment, in caſes of deſertion, mutiny, and the like, when only every hundredth man is executed.
 * 1822, Reginald Heber, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, volume XIII, page 413
 * Sometimes the criminals were decimated by lot, as appears in Polybiusˡ, Tacitusᵐ, Plutarchn, Appianᵒ, Dioᵖ, Julius Capitolinusq, who also mentions a centesimation.
 * 1897, The Columbian Cyclopedia (Garretson, Cox & Company), volume 6, “ centesimate ”
 * […] v. -māt, to inflict the punishment of centesimation.
 * 1980, Stephen Spender and Irving Kristol [eds.], Encounter (Congress for Cultural Freedom), volume 54, page 71
 * Essential for the historical novelist are acutiator (“in medieval times, a sharpener of weapons”) and awm (“forty gallons of wine in old England”), and — if he specialises in the grandeur that was Rome, the glory that was Greece — centesimation, though it carries only one-tenth the sensation value of “decimation”, and petalism (“the custom in ancient Syracuse of banishing a citizen for five years”).³
 * 1992, Laurence Urdang, Three Toed Sloths and Seven League Boots: A Dictionary of Numerical Expressions (Marboro Books; ISBN 1566190509, 9781566190503), page 151
 * decimate, to select by lot and put to death every tenth man of (a captured army or body of prisoners or mutineers), a barbarity occasionally practised in antiquity. Compare ¹⁄₁₀₀: centesimation.