dējectĭo
ōnis, f.
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, 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, Dig. 49, 16, 3: populi nostri, Vulg. 1 Mac. 3, 43.—(Sen. Q. N. 2, 59, 11, defectione is prob. the true reading.)