Pl. -cidia. [L., f. stilla drop + cid- weakened root of cadĕre to fall.]
1. Civil Law. = STILLICIDE.
1727. Bailey, vol. II., Stillicidium, the Droppings of the Eaves of an House.
1765–8. Erskine, Inst. Law Scot., II. ix. 300.
1892. Kath. Gould, trans. Convers. Döllinger, i. 5. The stillicidia of the Romans during the great water-famine … did not interest me in the least.
2. Path. A morbid dropping or trickling.
1791. G. Wallis, Motherby’s Med. Dict. (ed. 3), s.v. Vagina, They [polypous tumours in the vagina] are attended with perpetual stillicidium from the vagina.
1876. Bartholow, Mat. Med. (1879), 408. A constant stillicidium of semen.
1876. trans. Wagner’s Gen. Pathol., 94. Stillicidium and catarrh of the lachrymal ducts.
