A.lifeless, inanimate, “πόθῳ” Archil.84; “μνημεῖ᾽ ἄψυχ᾽ ἐμψύχων” Simon.106.4, cf. E.Fr.655, Tr. 623; “λωτὸς ἄ. ἔμπνουν ἀνίει Μοῦσαν” Sopat.10; ἃ -ότατα τῶν ὀστῶν with least life or sensation, Pl.Ti.74e, cf. Arist.de An.413a21, etc.; ἄ. θεοί, of statues, Timae.127.
2. ἄ. βορά non-animal food, E.Hipp. 952.
II. spiritless, faint-hearted, “κάκη” A.Th.192; “ἀνήρ” Trag.Adesp.337: ἀψυχότεραι αἱ θήλειαι [ἐλέφαντες] Arist.HA610a21; of style, lifeless, D.H.Dem.20. Adv. “-χως” Poll.2.227.
III. materialistic, “λόγος” Porph.Gaur.14.4 (Comp.).