dēfīnītĭo — Lewis and Short Latin Dictionary

dēfīnītĭo, ōnis, f. definio. * A bounding, a boundary: AREA INTRA HANC DEFINITIONEM CIPPORVM CLAVSA VERVBVS, Inscr. Orell. 736.— A limiting, prescribing, defining; a definition, explanation (freq. only in Cicero; cf. definio): ut quodcumque accidisset praedictum videretur hominum et temporum definitione sublata, Cic. Div. 2, 54, 110: judiciorum aequorum, id. Clu. 2: definitio est earum rerum, quae sunt ejus rei propriae, quam definire volumus, brevis et circumscripta quaedam explicatio, id. de Or. 1, 42, 189; cf. id. Or. 33, 116; id. Fin. 2, 2, 5; id. Off. 1, 2 fin. et saep.; Quint. 1, 6, 29: definitio pars sit translationis, id. 3, 6, 42 et saep.— Transf., that which is decreed, decided: perpetrata quippe est definitio, Vulg. Dan. 11, 36.

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dēfīnītĭo

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dēfīnītĭo

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