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† ˈditton Obs.
Also 6 Sc. dytone, 7 diton.
[a. F. dicton (in 16th c. pronounced diton, acc. to Palsgrave p. 23, and Beza), a word or phrase become proverbial:—L. dictum a saying: see dictum.]
A phrase, an expression; esp. one of the nature of a motto or proverb.
1572Satir. Poems Reform. xxx. ad fin., Finis with the Dytone Quod Sempill. 1606W. Birnie Kirk-Buriall (1833) 17 Inscryving their tombes with a trigram of D.M.S. a diton that meaned, Diis manibus Sacrum. 1631A. Craig Pilgr. & Herm. 7 On the greene growing Barke of each blooming Tree, This Diton indorsed shall well written bee. 1653Urquhart Rabelais ii. xxvii. (1694) 163, Pantagruel for an eternal Memorial wrote this victorial Ditton. |
