cilicious

English

Etymology

From Latin cilicium (“a covering, originally made of Cilician goat hair”), from Cilicious (“Cilician”), from Cilicia (“a province of Asia Minor”).

Adjective

cilicious (not comparable)

1. (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

• “cilicious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.