DICHOTOMY, noun [Gr., a division into two parts; to cut.]
1. Division or distribution of ideas by pairs. [Little used.]
2. In astronomy, that phase of the moon in which it appears bisected, or shows only half its disk, as at the quadratures.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.