decury
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin decuria, from decem (“ten”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]decury (plural decuries)
- (Ancient Rome) A group of ten men under the command of a decurion.
- 1904, John Henry Freese, Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb, Roman History, Books I-III[1]:
- Accordingly, the hundred senators divided the government among themselves, ten decuries being formed, and the individual members who were to have the chief direction of affairs being chosen into each decury.
- 1760, Robert Kerr, A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 1[2]:
- If one, two, or more of a decury proceed bravely to battle, and the rest do not follow, the cowards are slain.
References
[edit]- “decury”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.