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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.

* ob-tĭcĕo, ēre, v. n. [taceo], to be silent, Ter. Eun. 5, 1, 4.

obtĭcesco (opt-), tĭcŭi, 3, v. inch. n. [obticeo], to become or be struck silent; in perf., to be silent (syn. obmutesco): obticuit obticescit, Not. Tir. p. 90: quid, amabo, opticuisti? Plaut. Bacch. 1, 1, 28: quid nunc obticuisti? Ter. Phorm. 5, 9, 2 (dub.; Umpfenb. and Fleck. obstipuisti): repente obticuit, Just. 32, 2, 3: nec prius obticuit quam, etc., Ov. M. 14, 523: chorus, Hor. A. P. 284; Mart. 10, 17, 4.
With acc.: cetera obticuit, Lact. Ira Dei, 4, 13.