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ὀνυ^χ-ίζω ,
A.pare the nails. in Med., Jul.Mis.339b, Iamb.VP28.154 : aor “ὠνυχισάμην” LXX 2 Ki.19.24(25) :—Pass., “ὠνυχισμένος” with one's nails pared, Cratin.455.
II. “ὀ. ὄνυχας” to have the hoof cloven, LXX Le.11.7, al.
III. examine with the nail, examine closely, Artem.4 Prooem., Jul.Or.5.162c : fut. ὀνυχιεῖ: ἐπιμελῶς ἐξετάσει, Hsch. :—Pass., ὀνυχίζεται, expld. by Phot. ἀκριβολογεῖται, Ar.Fr.834.
IV. overreach, “ἐν τῇ συνηθείᾳ -ίζεσθαί φαμεν τὸν ἐπὶ βλάβῃ ὑπό τινος ἐξαπατηθέντα” Artem.1.22.
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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