A.purify from guilt or pollution, “τὴν πόλιν” Pl.Lg.873b; “σεαυτόν” Id.Euthphr.4c; “πόλιν τὰ πρὸς τοὺς θεούς” Aeschin.3.120.
3. establish, consecrate, “θυσίας” OGI383.202.
II. Med., satisfy one's conscience, Pl.Phd.60e; make atonement or expiation, Id.Phdr.242c; “ἀποσιοῦσθαι τῇ θεῷ” Hdt.1.199; “ἀ. ὑπὲρ αὑτοῦ” Pl.Lg.874a.
2. c.acc. rei, acquit oneself of an obligation, ἀποσιεύμενος τὴν ἐξόρκωσιν quit oneself conscientiously of one's oath, Hdt.4.154; ἀ. λόγιον quitting oneself of the orders of an oracle, ib.203; “τὰ πρὸς τοὺς θεούς” Jul.Mis. 361b.
b. avert a curse or the consequence of crime, “ἄγος” Plu. Cam.18, cf. Alc.33,al.; “διαβολάς” D.H.4.79; “τὴν ἀσθένειαν τῆς φύς εως” Sallust.18 (prob.l.).
c. do a thing for form's sake, i.e. do it perfunctorily, “οὐδ᾽ ἀφοσιούμενος ἀλλ᾽ ὡς οἷόν τ᾽ ἄριστα παρασκευαζόμενος” Is. 7.38; “ἀ. περί τινος” Pl.Lg.752d, cf. Ep.331b; “προβολήν” Plu.Per.10.
d. allege as an excuse, “τὴν ἀνάγκην” Id.Them.24.
e. eschew on religious grounds, hold in abomination, κρόμυον, κυάμους, Id.2.353f, 286d: abs., Ant.28.
III. Pass., ἀφωσιωμέναι: ἀνόσιαι, ἄποθεν τοῦ ὁσίου γεγενημέναι, S.Fr.253.
