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rejectio

rejectio · f

a throwing back

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Where it lives

De Carne Christi 1 · 1.05/10k
In C. Verrem 1 · 0.1/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

rējectĭo — Lewis & Short

rējectĭo, ōnis, f.reicio,

I a throwing back, throwing away. *

I Lit.: sanguinis, i. e. throwing up, Plin. 23, 8, 76, § 146; Pall. 3, 31, 2.—

II Trop., a rejecting, re jection (so in good prose, esp. freq. in Cic.).

A In gen.: selectio et item rejectio, Cic. Fin. 3, 6, 20: quod si civi Romano licet esse Gaditanum, sive exilio, sive postliminio, sive rejectione hujus civitatis, id. Balb. 12, 29.—

B In partic.

1 In jurid. lang., a challenging, rejection of a judge: judicum, Cic. Verr. 1, 6, 16; so id. Planc. 15, 36. — Absol.: rejectione interpositā, Cic. Sull. 33, 92; id. Att. 1, 16, 3.—

b Transf., in gen.: excutere, quicquid dici potest, et velut rejectione factā ad optimum pervenire, Quint. 7, 1, 34: eruditorum, Plin. H. N. praef. § 7.—

2 Rhet. t. t.

a In alium, a shifting off from one's self to another, Cic. de Or. 3, 53, 204 (al. trajectio; v. Orell. N. cr.); cited also in Quint. 9, 1, 30.—

b = Gr. a)podi/wcis, the setting aside of considerations which are not pertinent, Jul. Rufin. Schem. Lex. § 12.

In the wild

reiectio Cicero, Letters to Atticus 1.16.3
reiectio Tertullian, De Carne Christi 4
reiectio Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.praef.p2
reiectio Cicero, In C. Verrem 1.1.16.p2
reiectio Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 23.8.p3
reiectio Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.1.30

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