centuriation

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin centuriātiō.

Noun

centuriation (uncountable)

1. A method of land measurement used in Ancient Rome, characterised by the regular layout of a square grid traced using surveyors' instruments.
   • 2015 November 4, Beppe Severgnini, “Let Refugees Settle Italy’s Empty Spaces”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     One particularly aggressive proponent of centuriation was Emperor Septimius Severus, who ruled from A.D. 192 to 211 and whose 400,000-man army was spread across an empire of 70 million people, from the Atlantic to the eastern shores of the Black Sea and from northern England to southern Egypt.

Anagrams

• antineurotic, nicotinurate