cessātĭo (noun F) : cesso.
* A tarrying, delaying: non datur cessatio,Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 103.—Hence
* Inactivity, idling, cessation, omission, idleness: furtum cessationis quaerere,Q. Cic. Fam. 16, 26, 2: cessatio libera atque otiosa,Cic. Leg. 1, 3, 10 Orell. N. cr.: pugnae,Gell. 1, 25, 8: Epicurus nihil cessatione melius existimat... deum sic feriatum volumus cessatione torpere, etc.,Cic. N. D. 1, 36, 102; 1, 37, 102.— So in jurid. lang.,a punishable delay,Dig. 37, 2, 6.—And of ground, a lying fallow, Col. 2, 1, 3.

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