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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Vigesimation

/vījĕsĭmāʹshən/ · Vi·ges·i·ma·tion · IPA /vaɪdʒɛsɪˈmeɪʃən/
01 n. The act of putting to death every twentieth man.
  1. 1.
    The act of putting to death every twentieth man.[R.]