stillicidium

Noun

Meaning

(medicine, obsolete) A morbid trickling.

(law, historical) An urban servitude in Ancient Rome, where a proprietor was not allowed to build to the extremity of his estate, but must leave a space regulated by the charter by which the property was held, so as not to throw the eavesdrop on the land of his neighbour.
Synonym: stillicide

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