• (n.) The infliction of the death penalty upon one person in every hundred, as in cases of mutiny.
Cen·tes`i·ma'tion noun [ Latin centesimore to take out or select every hundredth, from centesimus hundredth.] (Mil.) The infliction of the death penalty upon one person in every hundred, as in cases of mutiny. 
Centesimation is a military punishment involving the infliction of the death penalty upon one person in every hundred. It was sometimes used in cases of mutiny.