decimate

teloittaa joka kymmenes

harventaa puhekieltä To kill one-tenth of a group, puhekieltä as a military punishment in the Roman army selected by lot, usually carried out by the surviving soldiers.
*(circa) w:Jeremy Taylor|Jeremy Taylor, Vol. I:

God sometimes decimates or tithes delinquent persons, and they died for a common crime, according as God hath cast their lot in the decrees of predestination.

Said to have been martyred as a Christian legionary commander of late Roman times for having refused an imperial order to kill one in ten (that is, decimate in the Roman meaning of the word) of the soldiers of another legion which had gone into revolt...

...where Caesar threatened to disband Legio X after a mutiny. The men begged him to decimate them instead, and Caesar relented in the same way that Titus refrained from executing this cavalryman after his comrades’ appeal.

Shall we decimate them? That sounds good, nice word. Remove one-tenth of the population!

...there will be eight hundred and ten laborers producing as nine hundred, while, to accomplish their purpose, they would have to produce as one thousand... Here, then, we have a society which is continually decimating itself...

England had decimated itself for a question which involved no principle, and led to no result.

I have heard you are as poor as a decimated Cavalier referring to Cromwell's ten per cent. income-tax on Cavaliers, and had not one foot of land in all the world.

In addition, an ordinance was published that “all who had ever borne arms for the king, or declared themselves to be of the royal party, should be decimated, that is, pay a tenth part of all the estate which they had left, to support the charge which the commonwealth was put to...

In this dramatic picture, the nation is literally decimated, and even the tenth which remains is subjected to a further destruction.

African slaves were needed to replace Native American populations that had been decimated (literally reduced to one-tenth their size) by European conquest.

In the New World, European colonists initially enslaved Native Americans, decimating the indigenous populations to one-tenth of their original sizes.

A decimate tool allows us to obtain a more coarse-grained view of the data over the full (g)-dimensional space.

However, many times it is more practical to decimate existing high-res models because of time, money or manpower issues.

Given this initial fine mesh, we smooth and decimate it to a desired mesh resolution.