Cessatìo, Verb. Plaut.Slacknesse: idlencsse: loytering: vacantnesse from labour.Fœnus cessationis. Columel. The commoditie or profite of rest. Furtum cessationis. Cic.Cessatio pugnæ pactitia. Gell A respite of warre: a truce.Cessatio in agris.Lying falow.Cessatio aut legatio.Cic. Libera & oriosa cessatio. Cic.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
cespito@cessātor@cessātĭo, ōnis, f. [cesso]. I.A tarrying, delaying: non datur cessatio, Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 103.—Hence, II.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.