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n. [ L. centesimore to take out or select every hundredth, fr. centesimus hundredth. ] (Mil.) The infliction of the death penalty upon one person in every hundred, as in cases of mutiny.

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a. [ Cf. F. infinitésimal, fr. infinitésime infinitely small, fr. L. infinitus. See Infinite, a. ] Infinitely or indefinitely small; less than any assignable quantity or value; very small. [ 1913 Webster ]

Infinitesimal calculus, the different and the integral calculus, when developed according to the method used by Leibnitz, who regarded the increments given to variables as infinitesimal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Math.) An infinitely small quantity; that which is less than any assignable quantity. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By infinitesimals; in infinitely small quantities; in an infinitesimal degree. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A carnivorous animal (Crossarchus obscurus) of tropical Africa. It its allied to the civets. Called also kusimansel, and mangue. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a cosmopolitan genus of plants, including some of the loosestrifes, found in damp or swampy terrain having usually yellow flowers; they are inclined to be invasive.
Syn. -- genus Lysimachia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. millesimus, fr. mille a thousand. ] Thousandth; consisting of thousandth parts; as, millesimal fractions. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Wrong imagination; delusion. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. nonagesimus the ninetieth. See Nonagenarian. ] (Astron.) Of or pertaining to the ninetieth degree or to a nonagesimal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Astron.) The middle or highest point of the part of the ecliptic which is at any given moment above the horizon. It is the ninetieth degree of the ecliptic, reckoned from the points in which it is intersected by the horizon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;. ] Education late in life. [ R. ] Hales. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Least favorable for survival; -- of an organism's environment.
Syn. -- pessimum(prenominal). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ L., fr. quadragesimus the fortieth, fr. quadraginta forty; akin to quattuor four. See Four. ] (Eccl.) The forty days of fast preceding Easter; Lent. [ 1913 Webster ]

Quadragesima Sunday, the first Sunday in Lent, about forty days before Easter. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. quadragésimal. ] Belonging to Lent; used in Lent; Lenten. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. Offerings formerly made to the mother church of a diocese on Mid-Lent Sunday. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L., fr. quinquagesimus the fiftieth, akin to quinquaginta fifty, quinque five. See Five. ] Fiftieth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Quinquagesima Sunday, the Sunday which is the fiftieth day before Easter, both days being included in the reckoning; -- called also Shrove Sunday. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. L. septuagesimus the seventieth, fr. septuaginta seventy. ] (Eccl.) The third Sunday before Lent; -- so called because it is about seventy days before Easter. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Consisting of seventy days, years, etc.; reckoned by seventies. [ 1913 Webster ]

Our abridged and septuagesimal age. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., fem. of sexagesimus sixtieth, fr. sexaginta sixty. ] (Eccl.) The second Sunday before Lent; -- so called as being about the sixtieth day before Easter. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. sexagésimal. ] Pertaining to, or founded on, the number sixty. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sexagesimal fractions or
Sexagesimal numbers (Arith. & Alg.), those fractions whose denominators are some power of sixty; as, 1/60, 1/3600, 1/216000; -- called also astronomical fractions, because formerly there were no others used in astronomical calculations. --
Sexagesimal arithmetic, or
Sexagenary arithmetic, the method of computing by the sexagenary scale, or by sixties. --
Sexagesimal scale (Math.), the sexagenary scale. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sexagesimal fraction. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Arch.) A cyma. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. simagrée. ] A grimace. [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. simarre. See Chimere. ] A woman's long dress or robe; also light covering; a scarf. [ Written also cimar, cymar, samare, simare. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ F. ] See Simar. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. vigesimus twentieth, from viginti twenty. ] Twentieth; divided into, or consisting of, twenties or twenty parts. Tylor. [ 1913 Webster ]