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ὕφεσις , εως, ἡ, (ὑφίημι)
A.letting down, slackening, of strings in music, Plu.2.389e; “τῆς φωνῆς” Antyll. ap. Orib.6.9.5; relaxation, “σωμάτων μυωδῶν” Gal.19.403; of the pulse, Ruf.Syn.Puls.6.5; lowering, “τῶν ἀκοντίων” Arr.Tact.38.3.
2. complaisance, “ἐπὶ τῶν πραγμάτων” Plu. Ant.24; “πρὸς τοὺς φίλους” Id.2.808c; “χάρις . . ὕφεσις ἀκριβείας ἐν δέοντι” Favorin. ap. Gell.1.3.27.
II. = ὑφαίρεσις 111, A.D. Pron.51.5, EM 36.33; “ἡ ὕ. τῆς προθέσεως” A.D.Conj.247.12.
2. Arithm., subtraction, David Proll.54.20; lowering of numbers, Ph.1.187.
III. descent in the scale, abasement, Procl. in Prm.p.618 S., Inst.29, al.; joined with ὑπόβασις (q. v.), Aristid. Quint.3.10; “κατὰ ὕφεσιν” Dam. Pr.34, cf. 69,91; subordination, subjection as a form of relation, Elias in Porph.203.5:—ἐν ὑφέσει: ἐν ἐλαττώσει, Hsch.
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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