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Etymology
Latin septimus (“seventh”) + -ation, after decimation; compare septimate.
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Noun
septimation (countable and uncountable, plural septimations)
- (rare) The loss, seizure, destruction, or killing of one seventh (of something or of a group).
1844, J.A.T., “Observations on the Genius of the Christian Sabbath, as Illustrated in the Life of Wilberforce”, in The Oberlin Evangelist, volume VI, number 5, page 40:To Wilberforce ‘the Sabbath was a delight’ […] O how often, even among those who most punctiliously observe it, does it seem […] an unwelcome exaction, a sort of septimation of time, as grievous as church decimations of property.
1853, William Jackman, “chapter XVII”, in I. Chamberlayne, editor, The Australian Captive, page 206:We had gone into the enemy’s ground with seven hundred warriors — a little over one hundred of whom were missing when we left it — as, at that time, we could hardly muster six hundred. This septimation of our men was accompanied by a proportionate riddance of such encumbrances of the expedition as wore the shape of women and little ones.
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