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χρῴζω , E.Ph.1625, Alex.141.9, Arist.Mir.834a8, later χρώννυ_μι , χρυσ-ύω (qq.v.): fut.
A.“χρώσω” Hsch.: aor. “ἔχρωσα” Arist.Mete.371a24, Luc. Im.7, etc.: pf. κέχρωκα （ἐπι-) Plu.2.395d:—Pass., fut. “χρωσθήσομαι” Gal.1.278, 9.394: aor. “ἐχρώσθην” Pl.Tht.156e, etc.: pf. “κέχρωσμαι” Hp.Epid.7.17, E.Med.497, etc.: plpf. “ἐκέχρωστο” Alciphr. Fr.6.17:— = χροΐζω, touch the surface of a body, and generally, touch, “γόνατα μὴ χρῴζειν ἐμά” E.Ph.1625.
2. tinge, stain, “ἔχρωσε μέν, ἔκαυσε δ᾽ οὔ” Arist.Mete.371a24, etc.; τὸ καλὸν χρῶμα δευσοποιῷ χρῴζομεν Alex.l. c.; “πόσον αἷμα τὴν γῆν ἔχρωσεν;” Lib.Or.42.41; εὖ χ. gives a good complexion, Orib.Syn.5.23:—Pass., Arist.Col.793b23, Mete.375a6, Zos.Alch.p.171B.; “ὑπὸ τοῦ ἡλίου” Luc.Anach.25; κεστρεὺς χρωσθείς browned in frying, Antiph.217.11; “ὑπόξανθος τοῖς φύλλοις ἐκέχρωστο αὐγή” Alciphr. l.c.; of the moon, “χρωσθεῖσα φύσιν πολυκαμπέα” Alex.Eph. ap. Theo Sm. p.140H.; of the tongue, Gal.9.394; τὰ μέλανα (sc. διαχωρήματα）“ ὑπὸ μελαίνης χολῆς . . χρῴζεται” Id.18(2).142.
3. taint, defile, “αἵματι παλάμαν” APl.4.138, cf. Porph.Antr.11:—Pass., metaph., “μάτην κεχρώσμεθα κακοῦ πρὸς ἀνδρός” E.Med.497; of air, to be infected, “μιάσμασιν” Hp.Flat.6.
4. metaph. of an author, paint, “ἔχρωσα . . κατηφεῖ χρώματι τὰ νάματα” Him.Ecl.12.7.
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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