The corpus record

ψῑλ-ωσις

psilosis · ἡ

stripping bare of flesh

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What it meant

ψῑλ-ωσις · psil-ōsis — LSJ

stripping bare of flesh, of hair, shaving, of leaves

stripping bare of flesh, ὀστέου Hp. Aph. 7.19; of hair, Clearch. 9; ψ. τῆς κεφαλῆς shaving, Archig. ap. Gal. 8.150; of leaves, Plu. QConv. 2.646d; χρημάτων J. AJ 17.11.2.

II writing, pronouncing with the spiritus lenis, an unaspirated consonant

Gramm., writing or pronouncing with the spiritus lenis, or an unaspirated consonant, Eust. 515.37.

Where it came from

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