latitation
(lætɪˈteɪʃən)
[ad. L. latitātiōn-em, f. latitāre to lie hid.]
The fact of lying concealed; hiding, lurking.
| 1623 Cockeram, Latitation, a lurking. 1629 Jackson Creed vi. ii. xxxviii. §6 The women of Hungary..buried their children alive lest their timorous outcries might bewray the place of their abode or latitation. 1875 Poste Gaius iv. Comm. (ed. 2) 510 Avoidance of in jus vocatio by latitation or keeping house rendered a defendant liable to manus injectio. |