The act or process of tying, binding, or girding with a cestus or belt.
From cestus (belt) + -action (process or act), following English word formation patterns for verbs transformed into nouns.
This word is so rare that it barely appears in English literature—it's the kind of word a Roman poet might have used but we've largely forgotten, leaving it as a ghost term in the OED.
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