noun
rĕpastĭnātĭo
Meaning
- a digging up again
rĕpastĭnātĭo, ōnis, f. repastino.
I. Lit., agricult. t. t., a digging up again:
quid fossiones agri repastinationesque proferam? Cic. Sen. 15, 53; Col. 2, 2, 13.— * II. Trop., a revising, pruning, Tert. Exhort. ad Cast. 6 fin.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
repastinātiō ōnis, f
* re-pastino, to dig up anew, a digging up again .