資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Centesimation \Cen*tes`i*ma"tion\, n. [L. centesimore to take
   out or select every hundredth, fr. centesimus hundredth.]
   (Mil.)
   The infliction of the death penalty upon one person in every
   hundred, as in cases of mutiny.