phasis
[fey-sis]
Origin of phasis
1650–60; < New Latin < Greek phásis appearance, equivalent to pha- (base of phaínein to show) + -sis -sis
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Historical Examples of phasis
It is I apparently who am going to cheat you and carry you off to Phasis.
AnabasisXenophon
Imagine however that I could even succeed in deluding you to Phasis.
The Two Great Retreats of HistoryGeorge Grote
It is the phasis of the Union as created by the Constitution.
Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862Adam Gurowski
He had then completed a journey from the Phasis of not much less than 4000 stadia.
Dioscurias, however, is 800 stadia from the Phasis, of 700 to a degree.