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obtĭcentĭa, ae, f. [obticeo], a pause, sudden break in the midst of a discourse, as a rhet. figure: Ἀποσιώπησις, quam Cicero reticentiam, Celsus obticentiam, nonnulli interruptionem appellant, Quint. 9, 2, 54.