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 far, "wheat."

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