Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A company of ten; specifically, in the Jesuit method of instruction, a minor division of a class in which chiefly memory lessons are heard.
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Examples
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The curtain swayed again, and the rest of a decuria of troops entered.
A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. William Stearns Davis 1903
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Augustus added a fourth _decuria_ from the lower classes, and Caligula a fifth, so that Quintilian could speak of a juryman as ordinarily a man of little intelligence and no legal or general knowledge.
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879
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Ephemeridum Medico-Physicarum Germanicarum Academiæ Naturæ curiosorum decuria II. annus quartus, anni 1685 continens celeberrimorum Virorum observationes medicas_: Norimbergæ, 1686, in 4to.
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_decuria_ under the presidency of a _magister quinquennalis_.
Pagan and Christian Rome Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani 1888
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