(Punishment by decimation)

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• Decimation (Roman army) — This article is part of the series on: Military of ancient Rome (portal) 753 BC – AD 476 Structural history Roman army (unit types and ranks …   Wikipedia

• Decimation — may refer to: Decimation (Roman army), a form of military discipline used by officers in the Roman army for punishment Decimation (signal processing), a reduction in the number of samples Decimation (comics), a Marvel Comics crossover spinning… …   Wikipedia

• Decimation — Dec i*ma tion, n. [L. decimatio: cf. F. d[ e]cimation.] 1. A tithing. [Obs.] State Trials (1630). [1913 Webster] 2. A selection of every tenth person by lot, as for punishment. Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. The destruction of any large proportion, as… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• decimation — mid 15c., from L.L. decimationem (nom. decimatio), from decimat , pp. stem of L. decimare the removal or destruction of one tenth, from decem ten (see TEN (Cf. ten)). Earliest sense in English was of a tithe; punishment sense is from 1580s;… …   Etymology dictionary

• Decimation — Orig. a punishment imposed by the Romans in which one in 10 was killed. A word used of the extravagant distribution of 10 per cent of his lands by King /Ethelwulf in 854 to the Church and his *thegns before going on pilgrimage to Rome. Kings were …   Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases

• decimation — decimate ► VERB 1) kill or destroy a large proportion of. 2) drastically reduce the strength of. DERIVATIVES decimation noun. USAGE The earliest sense of decimate was ‘kill one in every ten of’, a reference to the ancient Roman practice of… …   English terms dictionary

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• Sacramentum — The Sacramentum was an oath taken by all Roman legionaries on entering the Roman army. On the rare chance of punishment by Decimation, the surviving legionaries were often required to renew this military oath, which was the foundation of Roman… …   Wikipedia