[a. F. castramétation (16th c.), f. L. castra mētā-ri to measure or lay out a camp.]
a. The art or science of laying out a camp. b. concr. The outline of a camp traced out (obs.).
1679. Plot, Staffordsh. (1686), 404. Choul’s discourse of the Castrametation of the Romans. Ibid., 406. That entrenchment … has been one of these Roman Castrametations.
1816. Scott, Antiq., i. Discussion concerning urns, votive altars, Roman camps and the rules of castrametation.
1842. W. Ramsay, in Smith’s Gr. & Rom. Antiq. (1848), 244/2. A technical memoir on the art of castrametation.
