[ad. L. vexillātio, f. vexillum standard, VEXILLUM.] A company of veteran soldiers (see prec. A. a) or of soldiers grouped under one standard.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Vexillation, a company of men of arms under one Standard.
1732. Hist. Litteraria, III. 507. The quantity of Work perform’d by the Vexillations, appears to have nearly equalled that of the whole Legions.
1851. D. Wilson, Preh. Ann. (1863), II. III. ii. 44. The vexillation of the twentieth Legion dedicated four thousand paces of their wall to the Emperor whose name it bore.
1876. Skene, Celtic Scot., I. ii. I. 78. The vallum … had been constructed by the second … and twentieth legions, or rather by their vexillations.
