the name of a place in Syria, situated between the Heliopolis and Byblus, near Lebanon, (Zofimus); infamous for a temple of Venus, called Aphacitis, near which was a lake, round which fire usually burnt forth, and its waters were so heavy, that bodies... APHÆRESIS, in grammar, a figure by which a letter or syllable is cut off from the beginning of a word.

APHÆRESIS, that part of surgery which teaches to take away superfluities.