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vexillation|vɛksɪˈleɪʃən|
[ad. L. vexillātio, f. vexillum standard, vexillum.]
A company of veteran soldiers (see prec. A. a) or of soldiers grouped under one standard.
1656Blount Glossogr., Vexillation, a company of men of arms under one Standard. 1732Hist. Litteraria III. 507 The quantity of Work perform'd by the Vexillations, appears to have nearly equalled that of the whole Legions. 1851D. Wilson Preh. Ann. (1863) II. iii. ii. 44 The vexillation of the twentieth Legion dedicated four thousand paces of their wall to the Emperor whose name it bore. 1876Skene Celtic Scot. i. ii. I. 78 The vallum..had been constructed by the second..and twentieth legions, or rather by their vexillations. |