centuriationn.

1681 E. Lane Du Moulin's Refl. Reverberated 56 It may be said..that there shall be a Decimation of all Mankind at the last day, one amongst ten to be saved, or rather it may be you would have it there shall be then a Centuriation of Millions of men.

1867 Express 30 Nov. 2/6 Literary and scientific meetings for the ensuing week... Thursday:..‘Centuriation of Roman Britain’, Mr. Coote.

1869 H. C. Coote in Archaeologia 42 133 The territory having been thus appropriated to the colony, the next step was to divide and assign it..in centuriæ, or private estates, to and amongst the colonists. This centuriation, as it was called, was the legal and constitutional act which perfected the change from public land into private property.

1897 Econ. Jrnl. 7 73 It was my privilege to meet Dr. Meitzen at Treves whilst he was examining the traces of centuriation in that exceptionally Romanized district.

1918 Eng. Hist. Rev. 33 291 Numerous attempts have been made to detect centuriation, or something like it, in Britain.

1961 L. Mumford City in Hist. viii. 209 In many regions colonization was accompanied by..dividing fields into long rectangular parcels that are still visible from the air and respected in daily use. This system of ‘centuriation’ characterizes large parts of lowland Italy, Dalmatia, and Africa.

2014 D. Hall Open Fields Eng. v. 160 The roads are now accepted as Roman roads, but a case study at Felsted..found no evidence of centuriation.