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Definition of: decury
(dek′y
·rē) noun plural ·ries
1. A body of ten men.
2. In ancient Rome, the ten soldiers commanded by a decurion; also, a division of the curiae, of the hundred senators, and of the judges and corporations. [<L decuria <decem ten]
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