Detractio, ônis, fœm. gen. Verbal. A plucking away from: dis. praising: ill report: slaunder: hackbiting: detraction: pueging of excrements or ill huntors of the bodie. vt, Detractio alieni. Cicero. Taking awaye of an other mannes goodes.Detractio confecti cibi.Cic.Purging of excrementes after meate digestedDetractiones. Plin. Purging of humours.Detractio sanguinis. Plin. Bloudlecting.Sustinere detractionem sanguin is. Celsus. To abide bloude letting.Detractio molestiæ.Cic.Taking away of gricfe.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
dētractĭo, ōnis, f. [detraho], a drawing off, taking away, withdrawal. I. In gen. (good prose): alieni, opp. appetitio, Cic. Off. 3, 6, 30: doloris, id. ib. 3, 33, 118: loci,