dējectĭo, ōnis, f. [deicio], a throwing or casting down or out (rare).
I Lit. (acc. to deicio no. 1 A. and B.): imaginum, Nazar. Pan. Const. 12, 2.—
II Esp.
A Medic. t. t.: alvi, a purging , Cels. 1, 3; 2, 7 al.: dejectio alone, Sen. Ep. 120, 16.—
B Esp., legal t. t., ejection, a turning out of possession : qui illam vim dejectionemque fecerit, * Cic. Caecin. 20, 57; Dig. 43, 16, 1, § 34.—
C (Acc. to dejectus, P. a. no. I.) Altitudines stellarum et dejectiones, depressions , Firmic. Math. 2, 3.—
III Trop.: gradūs dejectio, degradation , Dig. 49, 16, 3: populi nostri, Vulg. 1 Mac. 3, 43.— ( Sen. Q. N. 2, 59, 11, defectione is prob. the true reading.)