Lewis Short
diffensus, a, um, Part. [dis- FENDO = ferio, trudo]
* Deferred, protracted: dilatus, XII. Tab. ap. Fest. p. 273, 26 Müll. (for which others read diffisus; cf. Dig. 2, 11, 2, § 3, and v. diffindo, II. B.).
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary