CENTURION, an Officer commanding an hundred Soldiers; he was much the same as our Captains. Centurion is a word often mentioned in the books of the New Testament. In the Hebrew of the Old Testament, he is called, The Chief of an hundred men.
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Augustin Calmet, O.S.B., “Centurion,” in Calmet's Dictionary of the Holy Bible, Complete and Unabridged, English translation, Mind of the Church, https://mindofthechurch.com/works/calmet-dictionary/c/centurion/.