septimation

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Du latin septimus (« septième ») avec le suffixe -ation, sur le modèle de decimation ; comparer à septimate.

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septimation

  1. (Rare) Perte, saisie, destruction, meurtre d’un septième (de quelque chose ou d’un groupe).
    • 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. — (J.A.T., “Observations on the Genius of the Christian Sabbath, as Illustrated in the Life of Wilberforce” dansin The Oberlin Evangelist VI, № 5, page 40, 1844)
    • 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. — (William Jackman [aut.] et I. Chamberlayne [ed.], The Australian Captive, chapitre XVII, page 206, 1853)

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