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στῦψις , εως, ἡ,
A.contraction, astringency, Thphr.Od.32, Diph.Siph. ap.Ath.3.80f, Dsc.1.39, Sor.1.81, Phylotim. ap. Orib.4.10.2, Aret.SA 2.2; of food which has a costive effect, Hp.Acut.10, cf. Aen.Gaz.Ep. 20; contraction of the skin, Sch.Il.14.216.
II. in dyeing, steeping of the fabric in an astringent solution, to prepare it for taking the dye, Arist.Col.794a29 (pl.).
III. in perfumery, thickening of oil with certain drugs to make it retain the scent longer, Dsc.1.6 (pl.).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Homer, Iliad, 14.216
    • Hippocrates, De diaeta in morbis acutis, 10
    • Aretaeus, De causis et signis acutorum morborum (lib. 1), 2.2
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