The Collaborative International Dictionary
Centuriate \Cen*tu"ri*ate\, a. [L. centuriatus, p. p. of
centuriare to divide (men) into centuries.]
Pertaining to, or divided into, centuries or hundreds. [R.]
--Holland.
Centuriate \Cen*tu"ri*ate\, v. t. [See century.] To divide into hundreds. [Obs.]
Wiktionary
divided into hundreds v
(context obsolete English) To divide into hundreds.
Usage examples of "centuriate".
Centuriate Assembly, a more exclusive body by far than the Plebeian Assembly, that elects the censors.
Sulla then heard that Cinna was actively lobbying many of the backbenchers for their support when Vergilius and another tribune of the plebs, Publius Magius, submitted a motion to the Senate to recommend to the Centuriate Assembly that Sulla be stripped of his imperium and made to answer charges of treason and murder.
Those Roman citizens who belonged to the capite censi or Head Count were too poor to qualify for a Class status, and so could not vote in the Centuriate Assembly.
Centuriate to return consuls and praetors first, then the full gamut of patricians and plebeians in the Popular Assembly to return the more minor magistrates, and finally the tribes in the Plebeian Assembly, which restricted its activities to the election of plebeian aediles and tribunes of the plebs.
Under the provisions of the Centuriate law which gave me my position, I am not obliged to see other magistrates elected if I so wish.
Centuriate elections for consuls and praetors already been held, he would not have been able to officiate, for his status as praetor-elect would have disqualified him.
Election outcomes were determined by the number of Centuriate or tribal votes going a particular way: thus in the Centuries of the First Class there were only ninety-one votes all told, the number of Centuries the First Class contained, and in the tribal Assemblies only thirty-five votes all told, the number of tribes.