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[ad. L. centuriātio, -ōnem, n. of action f. centuriāre to centuriate.]
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1869H. C. Coote in Archæologia XLII. 133 The territory having been thus appropriated to the colony, the next step was to divide and assign it..in centuriæ, or private estates, to and amongst the colonists. This centuriation, as it was called, was the legal and constitutional act which perfected the change from public land into private property. 1918Haverfield in Eng. Hist. Rev. XXXIII. 291 Numerous attempts have been made to detect centuriation, or something like it, in Britain. 1961L. Mumford City in History viii. 209 In many regions colonization was accompanied by..dividing fields into long rectangular parcels that are still visible from the air and respected in daily use. This system of ‘centuriation’ characterizes large parts of lowland Italy, Dalmatia, and Africa. |