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单词 centuriate
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centuriateadj.

Brit. /sɛnˈtjʊərɪət/, /sɛnˈtʃʊərɪət/, /sɛnˈtjɔːrɪət/, /sɛnˈtʃɔːrɪət/, U.S. /sɛnˈt(j)ʊriət/
Forms: 1600s– centuriate; Scottish pre-1700 centuriat.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin centuriātus, centuriāre.
Etymology: < classical Latin centuriātus that votes in centuries, (of land) divided into centuries, use as adjective of past participle of centuriāre centuriate v.In centuriate comitia after classical Latin comitia centuriāta.
1. Roman History. Designating an assembly in which the Roman people voted by centuries (see century n. 3); of or relating to such an assembly. Esp. in centuriate assembly, centuriate comitia.
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c1540 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1903) II. iii. xviii. 21 To soilȝe this questioun ane law was promulgate [MS pronulgate] in comites centuriat.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. vi. 247 In the Centuriate assemblies holden by degrees, and Curiat-meetings by the wardes and parishes [L. nec centuriatis nec curiatis comitiis].
1661 W. Howell Inst. Gen. Hist. i. vi. 175 Unto two men the Government should be committed, whom they should elect in their Centuriate Comitia.
1743 E. Chambers Cycl. (ed. 5) at Ovilia Every curia, tribe, and century, as the assembly was centuriate or tribute, &c. having its proper bridge.
1855 H. G. Liddell Hist. Rome II. lvi. 255 He had, in the year before, when he was Consul, carried a Centuriate Law.
1887 Monthly Packet Aug. 196 The right of appeal against the decision of the supreme magistrate to the people in the Centuriate Assembly.
1901 F. F. Abbott Hist. & Descr. Rom. Polit. Inst. iii. 27 The action of the centuriate comitia in electing magistrates, in passing laws, and in deciding appeals was of no great immediate value to the plebs.
1970 R. E. A. Palmer Archaic Community of Romans ix. 277 Our surviving evidence of archaic centuriate legislation is..slight.
2005 C. Williamson Laws of Rom. People v. 221 An explicit formula calculated to ensure that the outcome of the voting in the centuriate assembly reflected the will of the most prosperous Romans.
2. More generally: of, relating to, or divided into centuries (in various senses of century n.). rare before 20th cent.In later use chiefly in Roman contexts; cf. century n. 1, 2, 3.
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society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > [adjective] > body of 100
centurial1662
centuriate1676
society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > an administrative division of territory > [adjective] > relating to a hundred
centuriate1676
centenary1837
hundredal1862
the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > hundred and over > [adjective] > hundred > division into a hundred
centesimal1635
centuriate1676
1676 E. Coles Eng. Dict. Centuriate, divided by hundreds.
1753 H. J. Pancronometer 12 The centuriate number is the first figure of the year till A.D. 1000, and the two first figures, of that and all succeeding years.
1918 Eng. Hist. Rev. 33 296 The boundaries of Roman centuriate land.
1970 R. E. A. Palmer Archaic Community of Romans vi. 159 Servius' centuriate infantry..fought in units of equal complement according to weaponry under king or praetor.
2014 L. Kopp tr. L. C. Colognesi Law & Power in Making of Rom. Commonw. iii. 44 The great late republican scholar Varro equated convening the people's assembly with commanding the centuriate army.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

centuriatev.

Brit. /sɛnˈtjʊərɪeɪt/, /sɛnˈtʃʊərɪeɪt/, /sɛnˈtjɔːrɪeɪt/, /sɛnˈtʃɔːrɪeɪt/, U.S. /sɛnˈt(j)ʊriˌeɪt/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin centuriāt-, centuriāre.
Etymology: < classical Latin centuriāt-, past participial stem (see -ate suffix3) of centuriāre to arrange (soldiers) in centuries, to divide (land) into centuries < centuria century n.With use in sense 2 compare slightly earlier centuriation n. 2.
1. transitive. To arrange in groups of one hundred; to group or divide into centuries. Obsolete (rare after 17th cent.).
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1607 Trag. Claudius Tiberius Nero sig. L I, go, consult, whilst I centuriate A thousand nets to catch such tender fooles.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Centuriate, to divide by hundreds, to distribute into bands.
1851 Sartain's Union Mag. Jan. 69/1 The volume contains..a good chronological chart, with the stream of time centuriated, and the centuries marked by equal spaces, from the Creation to the year 1800.
2. transitive. Roman History. To divide (agricultural land) into a regular pattern of centuries (see century n. 1), esp. as part of the foundation of a colony. Chiefly in passive. Cf. centuriation n. 2.
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society > law > transfer of property > types of transfer > [verb (transitive)] > specific grant land
centuriate1870
1870 W. F. Finlason Hist. Law Tenures of Land Eng. & Ireland i. 24 Mr. Corte..has lately shown that the whole of this country was centuriated according to the Roman system, i.e. divided into lots.
1918 Eng. Hist. Rev. 33 296 The whole of northern Essex..would have been surveyed and centuriated on one general scheme.
1977 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 37 192 There is..no reason a priori to doubt that the Romans centuriated the lands they conquered in northern Europe.
2006 V. Livi in C. E. Schultz & P. B. Harvey Relig. in Republican Italy 93 The whole region was centuriated and the marshy area along the coast was reclaimed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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