cilicious
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin cilicium (“a covering, originally made of Cilician goat hair”), from Cilicious (“Cilician”), from Cilicia (“a province of Asia Minor”).
Adjective edit
cilicious (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Made, or consisting, of hair.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- a cilicious or sackcloth habit
References edit
- “cilicious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.