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Definition of Decimators
1. decimator [n] - See also: decimator
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decimators
Literary usage of Decimators
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Religion in England from the Opening of the Long Parliament to by John Stoughton (1881)
"... and finding in the generality of the county such a bitter spirit against
Swordsmen, decimators, Courtiers, &c., as did appear in the field at the time ..."
2. The Parliamentary Or Constitutional History of England: From the Earliest by Great Britain Parliament (1763)
"... all decimators, Major- Generals, ... ver, Major-Generals , and decimators ;
adding, That though he never ..."
3. Ecclesiastical History of England by John Stoughton (1867)
"... and finding in the generality of the county such a bitter spirit against
Swordsmen, decimators, Courtiers, &c., as did appear in the field at the time ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1894)
"It shall be very suddenly repaid you, if not, let the decimators fall upon the
bones of Sir, your humblest servant, RB But Sir Roger, like Sir Ralph, ..."
5. The Constitutional History of England from the Accession of Henry VII to the by Henry Hallam (1884)
"... by dead will be the hopes and advantages the anti-decimators. I believe the
bill for such a one to effect his aim who de- wiil be thrown out of the ..."
6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1833)
"Then came the Reign of Terror to decimate the populace, then the punishment of
the decimators. The scene is brief, but triumphant. ..."
7. History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1656 by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1903)
"... decimators, courtiers, &c., and most of those chosen to sit in the ensuing
Parliament are of the same spirit."2 So disastrous did the result appear to ..."
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