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deditician, n. and a. Rom. Law.|dɛdɪˈtɪʃən|
Also -itian.
[f. L. dēditīci-us, orig. an alien enemy who had surrendered unconditionally, then a freedman of the class described below; f. dēdit-, ppl. stem of dēdĕre to surrender: see -icious and -an.]
A freedman who, on account of some grave offence committed during his state of slavery, was not allowed the full rights of citizenship. Also attrib. or as adj.
1880Muirhead Ulpian i. §11 Those freedmen are ranked as dediticians who have been put in chains by their owners as a punishment, or branded, or put to the torture because of some offence and thereof found guilty, or given up to fight either with the sword or with wild beasts, or cast into a gladiatorial training-school or into prison, and have afterwards been manumitted, no matter how. Ibid. vii. §4 A woman of deditician condition.
Hence dediˈticiancy, the condition or state of a deditician. |