Definitions For Dimidiation

Noun

DIMIDIATION. (countable and uncountable, plural DIMIDIATIONs) The act of divide, dividing into half, halves. The condition of being divided into halves. (heraldry) A marshalling of two coat of arms, coats of arms by the bisection per pale of their escutcheon, escutcheons and forming a {{n-g, new}} coat of arms from the dexter half of one coat and the sinister half of the other.

Related terms

{{col-top, 3}} dimidiate dimidiated dimidiately {{col-bottom}}

Translations

Latin: dīmidiātiō, f {{qualifier, Late Latin}} Middle English: dimydicion Latin: dīmidiātiō, f {{qualifier, Mediaeval}}

See also

impalement

Etymology

Continuing the {{der, en, enm, dimydicion}} (circa 1425, in an arithmetical sense), from the {{der, en, LL., dīmidiātiō}}.