A.make new or strange, but usu. in deriv. senses, καί τι καινίζει στέγη the house has something new, strange about it, S.Tr.867; κ. εὐχάς offer new, strange prayers, E.Tr.889; ἀμφίβληστρον ὡς ἐκαίνισαν (corr. Blomf. for ᾧ σ᾽ ἐκαίνισαν) how they devised a new, strange net, A.Ch.492; “ὅστις τόνδ᾽ ἐκαίνισεν λόγον” E. Fr.598 ( = Critias 21 D.); so later, innovate, “καθολικόν τι καινίζειν” OGI669.47:—Pass., ib.62 (Egvpt, i A. D.), Just.Nov.7.12 Ep.; πολλὰ τῷ βίῳ κ. Vett.Val.270.27; in Poets, esp. use for the first time, handsel, καίνισον ζυγόν try on thy new yoke, A.Ag.1071; πρῶτος τὸν ταῦρον ἐκαίνισεν first handseled the bull [of Perilaus], Call.Fr.119; κ. δόρυ first to feel the spear, Lyc.530.
καινίζω , (καινός) prop.
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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