decisio

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

dēcīsĭo, ōnis, f. [2. decīdo].

I (Acc. to decīdo, no. II. B.) A diminishing : luminis, App. de Mundo, p. 71, 4.—Far more freq., and in good prose.—

II (Acc. to decīdo, no. II. A.) A decision, settlement, agreement : nostra de aequitate, Cic. Caecin. 36 fin. : dicat decisionem factam esse, quae facta non est, id. Rosc. Com. 13, 48; id. Fl. 36, 89; id. Verr. 2, 1, 54: quaestionis, Dig. 5, 3, 25.

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