A.working up, freq. of food, by digestion or by chewing, Arist.PA675b5, Pr.931a32, etc.; ἡ τοῦ πυρὸς κ. stewing, boiling, Mnesith. ap. Ath.2.59b: generally, production, χυμῶν (in the body) Hp.Praec.9; “κοιλωμάτων” Epicur.Ep.1p.9U. (pl.); “σίτου” Phld.Oec.pp.51,55 J.; working or manufacture, “ἐλαίου” Thphr. CP1.19.4; cultivation of land, ib.1.16.6 (pl.), 3.20.1, PTeb.61(b).129 (ii B.C.), etc.; “καρπῶν” D.S.1.14; of mines, Str.3.2.10; “ξύλων” Bito 52.2; “παραδείγματος” LXX 1 Ch.28.19; τυγχάνειν κατεργασίας ἀφ᾽ ἡλίου, of vapour, D.L.7.153; complction, “κ. λαμβάνειν” Thphr.HP1.12.2.
κατεργ-α^σία , ἡ,
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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