A.imperfect boiling, parboiling, scalding, simmering, opp. ἕψησις, Arist.Mete.381a12, al.; “ἀπεψία τις ἡ μ. ἐστι” Id.GA776a8; of rapidly growing cereals, ὥσπερ τὰ ἐπὶ τὸ ζέον ἐμβαλλόμενα τῶν ἑψομένων, οὐδεμίαν . . οὐδὲ κἀκεῖνα λαμβάνει μ., i.e. they 'cook' too suddenly, without 'simmering', Thphr.CP4.9.6. (Written μώλυσις and μώλυνσις in some codd. of Arist.Mete.379a2,b14, 381a12,22; μόλυνσις in nearly all codd. of Id.Mete.381b14, GA l.c., Thphr. l.c.; cf. μωλύω.）
μώλ-υ_σις , εως, 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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