dējectĭo — Lewis & Short
dējectĭo, ōnis, f.deicio,
I 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.)