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diffarreation Rom. Antiq.|dɪfæriːˈeɪʃən|
[ad. L. diffareātiōn-em, f. dif- + farreum a spelt-cake: see confarreation.]
An ancient Roman mode of dissolution of marriage, the undoing of the ceremony of confarreation.
1623Cockeram, Diffarreation, a sacrifice done betwixt a man and his wife at a diuorcement. 1727–51Chambers Cycl. s.v., Diffarreation was properly the dissolving of marriages contracted by confarreation, which were those of the pontifices. Festus says it was performed with a wheaten cake. |