Jastrow: קִיצוּתָא

קִיצוּתָא f. (= קְצִיצוּתָא) = h. קִיצָה, definite term, stipulation. Ned. 4ᵇ משום דלא אית ליה ק׳ because there is no definite term for it (a vow of abstinence, unless explicitly limited, is for ever); אבל … דאית ליה ק׳ וכ׳ but as to a Nazarite’s vow where there is a definite term (a Nazarite’s vow, unless qualified, being for thirty days) &c. Ib. 86ᵃ התם קיץ אשה … ק׳ there (in the case of the transfer of a field for ten years) there is a definite end stipulated, but can a woman (dedicating her handiwork to the sanctuary after she shall be divorced) define the time? B. Mets. 67ᵇ בק׳ by definite stipulation of the time up to which the mortgagee may have the privilege of usufruct. Ib. קצו׳ (corr. acc.). Keth. 54ᵇ מהו דתימא קַיְיצוּתָא עבדו וכ׳ you may have thought that the Rabbis instituted a definite sum as the wife’s jointure in order not to put the poor to shame. Y. ib. VI, 30ᵈ top (in Hebr. dict.) אם עשת ק׳ if she had a stipulation to that effect made (in her marriage contract); Tosef. ib. VI, 6 קִיצָתָהּ, v. קִיצָה. Shebu. 42ᵃ קי׳ דתרעא וכ׳ Ms. F. (ed. קצ׳, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 8) stipulations of prices one is likely to remember well.—V. קְצִיצָה.