incisio

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

incīsĭo, ōnis, f. [2. incīdo].

I A cutting into , cut , incision : ne incisio vulnus exasperet, Ambros. in Psa. 37, § 42. —

II Transf.

A Rhet. t. t, an incision , i. e. a division , member , clause of a sentence, Gr. κόμμα: de eorum (circuituum) particulis et tamquam incisionibus disserendum est, Cic. Or. 61, 206: in incisionibus et in membris, id. ib. 64, 216; cf. incisum under 2. incido fin. C.—

B Gramm. t. t., a caesura , Diom. p. 496 P.—

C A griping , colic : interiorum, Veg. Vet. 1, 39.

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