centurion
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- n (ancient Rome) the leader of 100 soldiers
- And Pilate wondered if he were already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he was already dead.
- Here's a case in, um, point: Is the ancient spear in the Imperial Treasury at Vienna's Hofburg Palace really the one that a Roman centurion used to pierce the side of the crucified .
- Neither did Christ warn the good centurion against fighting.