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ἀπο-ξενόω ,
A.drive from house and home: generally, estrange, banish from, “εἰς βαρβάρους τινὰ τῆς Ἑλλάδος” Plu.2.857e, cf. Id.Alex.69; drive into exile, “τινά” Id.Phil.13:— Pass., live away from home, “φυγὰς ἀπεξενοῦτο” S.El.777; “γῆς ἀπεξενωμένοι” E.Hec.1221; of troops on service, “ἀ. ἔξω τῆς οἰκείας” Arist.Pol. 1270a2; ἑτέρωσε ἀ. migrate to some other place, Pl.Lg.708b: generally, alienate oneself from, be averse from, “τινός” D.S.3.47, cf. Luc. Dom.2.
2. wean, Sor.1.117:—Pass., become disused to, “λουτρῶν” Agathin. ap. Orib.10.7.1.
3. to be convicted of ξενία, Is.Fr.46.
4. Med., disguise oneself, LXX3 Ki.14.5.
II. metaph., τοῦ ποιητοῦ ἀ. τὰ ἔπη estrange the verses from him, i.e. deny that they are his, Ath. 2.49b; but in Pass., ἀπεξενωμένος outlandish, of words, Hdn.Gr.2.910; “μαθήματα” Iamb.VP1.2.
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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