| 释义 |
† succenturiˈation Obs.
[f. prec.: see -ation.]
The supply of recruits to fill up a ‘century’ or company; gen. the supply (of persons or things).
1643M. Newcomen Craft Ch. Advers. 32 Such a succenturiation there hath been of plots, that we may say of them, as she of Gad, A Troope commeth. 1654H. L'Estrange Chas. I (1655) 161 Then they entered into consideration of constituting the Third Estate, and what succenturiation, what supplement should be resolved upon in the lieu of Bishops. 1658Phillips, Succenturiation,..a filling up the number of Souldiers wanting in any Company. 1676W. Hubbard Happiness People 51 The..succenturiation of the persons called to supply the room of them that having served their generation, are now fallen asleep. |