among the Romans, a ceremony whereby the divorce of their priests was solemnized. The word comes from the preposition *dis*; which is used, in composition, for division or separation; and *farreatio*, a ceremony with wheat, of *fur* "wheat."

Diffarreation was properly the dissolving of marriages contracted by confraternization; which were those of the pontifices or priests. Festus says, it was performed with a wheaten cake. Vigenere will have confraternization and diffarreation to be the same thing.