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ὁσι-όω ,
A.make holy, Med., keep oneself pure, E.Ba.114, v. l. in 70 (both lyr.):— Pass., to be purified, hallowed, “ὁσιωθείς” Id.Fr.472.15 (anap.) ; “ὡσιώθησαν αἱ ἡμέραι” X.HG3.3.1; of the souls of men, Plu.Rom.28.
2. abs., make things pure, do what heaven requires, φυγαῖσι by banishing the murderer, E.Or.515 ; “τὸ τὸν κατιόντα ὁσιοῦν καὶ καθαίρεσθαι” D.23.73 ; ὁσιοῦν [τινα] τῇ γῇ satisfy divine law by throwing earth, Philostr. Her.10.7.
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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    • Demosthenes, Against Aristocrates, 73
    • Euripides, Bacchae, 114
    • Euripides, Bacchae, 70
    • Euripides, Orestes, 515
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 3.3.1
    • Plutarch, Romulus, 28
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