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DECADE (from Gr. Oka, ten)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 907 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DECADE (from Gr. Oka, ten)  , a See also:group or See also:series containing ten members, particularly a See also:period of ten years . In the new See also:calendar made at the See also:time of the See also:French Revolution in 1793, a See also:decade of ten days took the See also:place of the See also:week . The word is also used of the divisions containing ten books or parts into which the See also:history of See also:Livy was divided .

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