seductio

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

sēductĭo, ōnis, f. [seduco].

I (Acc. to seduco, I.) *

A A leading or drawing aside : seductiones testium, Cic. Mur. 24, 49.—

B A misleading , seduction (eccl. Lat.): Adam confessus est seductionem, non occultavit seductricem, Tert. adv. Marc. 2, 2 fin. ; Ambros. in Luc. 7, § 218: cordis, Vulg. Jer. 23, 26: iniquitatis, id. 2 Thess. 2, 10.—*

II (Acc. to seduco, II.) A separation : mors est corporis animaeque seductio, Lact. 2, 12, 9.

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