decury
Americannoun
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a division, company, or body of ten men.
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any larger body of men, especially the curiae.
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Etymology
Origin of decury
First recorded in 1525–35, decury is from the Latin word decuria a company of ten. See decurion, -y 3
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Thus the hundred senators divide the government among them, ten decuries being formed, and one selected from each decury, who was to have the chief direction of affairs.
From The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livius, Titus
What? are not all the laws of Caesar respecting judicial proceedings abrogated by the law which has been proposed concerning the third decury?
From The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 by Cicero, Marcus Tullius
For the effect of the law is, to make those men judges in the third decury who do not dare to judge with freedom.
From The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 by Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Know then that dancers, harp-players, the whole troop, in fact, of Antonius's revellers, have all been pitchforked into the third decury of judges.
From The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 by Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Each of these three tribes of citizens consisted of ten curiae, and each curia of ten decuries, or gentes.
From The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by Lord, John
“We are but of yesterday,” cried Tertullian, “and we fill all your cities, islands, forts, councils, even the camps themselves, the tribes, the decuries, the palaces, the senate, and the forum.”
From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole
Thus the hundred senators divide the government among them, ten decuries being formed, and one selected from each decury, who was to have the chief direction of affairs.
From The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livius, Titus
Then came a Flemish company of two hundred men, with its captain and its standard bearer, and divided into two centuries commanded by the troop sergeants, and in decuries commanded by the rot-meesters.
From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Coster, Charles Th?odore Henri de
I have two decuries of men in your Atrium.
From The Roman Traitor, Vol. 2 by Herbert, Henry William
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