procrustean

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For some five thousand millennia the best humanity could produce in its oldest art, reckoning, was the crude, procrustean Roman system-so primitive that it made even multiplication specialists 'labor.

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  1. Of or pertaining to Procrustes, or the mode of torture practiced by him; producing conformity by violent means; as, the Procrustean treatment; a Procrustean limit. See Procrustes.

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  1. of or relating to the mythical giant Procrustes or the mode of torture practiced by him

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