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κνι_σόω ,
A.= κνισάω, Matro Conv.82: metaph., “τὰς ἑαυτῶν ψυχὰς κ.” Ph.1.628.
II. turn into fatty smoke, in Pass., δέλεαρ κεκνισωμένον savoury bait, Arist.HA534b5; “ὑποθυμιατέον βδέλλαις -ουμέναις” Antyll. ap. Orib.10.19.4; “εἰ κνισοῦται τὰ σιτία κατὰ τὴν γαστέρα” Gal. 8.37, cf. 6.691, 706; “ὁ ἰχθῦς κ.” Alex.Aphr.Pr.2.17.
2. κ. τὸν ζωμόν burn the soup, Luc.Sat.23.
III. Pass., become greasy, of oil after boiling, Heliod. ap. Orib.10.37.3; τὸ ἐκ τῆς ἑψήσεως κεκνις<ω>μένον ἔλαιον prob. in Sor.1.69.
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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