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παρα-βι^άζομαι ,
A.do a thing by force against nature or law, LXX De.1.43; use violence, “περὶ τῶν τοιούτων” Plb.24.8.3.
II. c. acc., π. τὸν χάρακα force the palisade, Id.21.27.7; π. τινά constrain, compel him, LXX 4 Ki.2.17, al., Ev.Luc.24.29, Act.Ap.16.15; of arguments or explanations, “τὸ ἀδύνατον π.” Epicur.Ep.2p.36U., Nat.107 G.; μύθους π. καὶ διαστρέφειν to do them violence, Plu.2.19f, cf. Lyc.6; constrain, c. inf., Onos.19.2 (Pass.):—Act. in Gal.5.287.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (8):
    • Old Testament, 2 Kings, 2.17
    • Polybius, Histories, 21.27.7
    • Polybius, Histories, 24.8.3
    • New Testament, Acts, 16.15
    • Old Testament, Deuteronomy, 1.43
    • New Testament, Luke, 24.29
    • Plutarch, Lycurgus, 6
    • Onasander, Strategicus, 19.2
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