Why this word is great
AVIZANDUM — [Noun] In Scots law, the formal period during which a judge withdraws to consider a case privately before pronouncing judgment. From Medieval Latin 'avizandum', neuter gerundive of 'avizare' (to consider, advise), itself from Late Latin 'advisare', from Latin 'ad-' (to) + 'visare' (to look at, examine), frequentative of 'videre' (to see). Unlike "deliberation," a general term for any careful thought, or "adjournment," a mere procedural pause, avizandum is the law's judicially-sanctioned retreat into solitary thought. It is the heavy click of a chamber door, the lamplight falling across stacked folios, and the profound hush where argument is transformed—a testament that justice, in its final form, is forged in a necessary, deliberate blindness before the final act of seeing.