Diffindo, diffindis, diffidi, pe. cor. diffissum, diffindere. Vir. To cleaue in sunder.Diffindere in longitudinem.Cic.To cleaue in length.Diffindere diem Liu.To put of a matter in eramination vntil the nert day.Diffindere medium. Cato. To cleaue in the middes.Diffindere minutè humum. Col. To cut the earth smal, or in smal peeces.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
dif-findo, fĭdi, fissum (also diffīsum), 3, v. a., to cleave asunder, to divide (rare but class.). I.Lit.: vitem mediam per medullam, Cato R. R. 41, 2: malos, Enn. ap. Non. 114, 7 (Ann. v. 389 ed. Vahl., where the read. is, as in Non., defindunt): ramum, Varr. R. R. 1, 40 fin.: terram, Lucr. 6, 584: saxum, Cic. Div. 1, 13 fin.: semen compressu suo (terra), id. de Sen. 15, 51: natem, Hor. S. 1, 8, 47: tempora plumbo, Verg. A. 9, 589; Suet. Gram. 11 et saep.— Poet.: urbium portas muneribus, i. e.
to open
, Hor. C. 3, 16, 13.—2.Transf., with an abstr. object: conjunctionem duplicem in longitudinem, Cic. Univ. 7.—II.Trop.A. In gen.: equidem nihil hinc diffindere possum, I cannot cut off aught of this, i. e. I can refute or deny no part of it, Hor. S. 2, 1, 79: cuneus rigentem servi tenacitatem violenter diffinderet,
to break by a bribe
, App. M. 9, p. 225.—Esp. freq., B. Diem, jurid. t. t., lit., to break off a matter, i. e. to put off to the following day, to defer (cf. differre), Dig. 2, 11, 2, 3: triste omen diem diffidit, Liv. 9, 38, 15; Gell. 14, 2, 11.— 2.Transf.: diem somno,