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Webster 1913 Edition

Vigesimation

Vi-gesˊi-ma′tion

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Noun.

The act of putting to death every twentieth man.

[R.]

Webster 1828 Edition

Vigesimation

VIGESIMA'TION

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Noun.

[L. vigesimus, twentieth.]

The act of putting to death every twentieth man.