dedition

English

Etymology

From Latin deditio, from dedere (“to give away, surrender”), from de- + dare (“to give”).

Noun

dedition (plural deditions)

1. (obsolete) The act of yielding; surrender.
   • 1713, [Matthew Hale], “How the Common Law of England Stood at and for Some Time after the Coming in of King William I.”, in The History of the Common Law of England: […], [London]: […] J[ohn] Nutt, assignee of Edw[ard] Sayer Esq; for J. Walthoe, […], →OCLC, page 78:

     [A]lmoſt all Victories, […] end in Deditions and Capitulations, and Faith given to the Conqueror, whereby oftentimes the former Laws, Privileges, and Poſſeſſions are confirmed to the Subdued, without which the Victors ſeldom continue long or quiet in their New Acqueſts, without extream Expence, Force, Severity and Hazard.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dedition”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• tineodid