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demissio

demissio · f

a letting down, sinking, lowering

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Where it lives

De Bello Civili 1 · 0.31/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 1 · 0.18/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k

What it meant

dēmissĭo — Lewis & Short

dēmissĭo, ōnis, f.id.,

I a letting down, sinking, lowering (very rare).

I Prop.: storiarum, * Caes. B. C. 2, 9, 5: barbae, a letting grow, Macr. S. 1, 22, 4.—In plur.: clipei aenei demissiones, Vitr. 5, 10 fin.—

II Trop. *

A (Acc. to demissus, no. II. A.): animi, dejection, * Cic. Tusc. 3, 7, 14. —*

B In medic. lang., an abatement, mitigation (opp. accessio), Coel. Aur. Acut. 1, 4.

In the wild

demissiones Vitruvius, De Architectura 5.10.5
demissio Julius Caesar, De Bello Civili 2.9.7
demissionem Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 3.14.p2

Where it came from

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