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ὑφαίρ-εσις , εως, ἡ,
A.taking away from under, ἰγνυῶν ὑ., in wrestling, Sopat. ap. Sch.T.Il.23.729.
2. purloining, pilfering, τοῦ γραμματείου from the clerks' office, Test. ap. D.45.61; “ζεύγους χεροψελίων ὑ. ποιεῖσθαι” PSI10.1128.23 (iii A. D.), cf. MitteisChr.372 ii 8, iii 5 (ii A. D.).
3. subtraction, “ἑνός” Ph.1.574; reduction, “τοῦ μεγέθους” Diog.Oen.39; “οἴνου καὶ τροφῆς” Sor.1.46.
II. ὑφαίρεσιν ποιεῖσθαι τῶν ὑποκειμένων to undertake the moderation or mitigation of . . , Plb.15.8.13.
III. in Gramm., omission of a letter, Sch. Ar. Av.149, EM389.6: opp. συγκοπή (which involves loss of a syllable), Hdn.Gr.2.247.
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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