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2 رصّن الشَّىْءَ مَعْرِفَةً ذ , (K,) thus accord. to some copies of the S, (TA,) inf. n. تَرْصِينٌ; (K;) accord. to other copies of the S, ↓ رَصَنَ ; (TA; [and accord. to the KL, the inf. n. of the verb in this sense, expl. by غالب شدن, is رَصْنٌ;]) (assumed tropical:) He overcame the thing by knowledge: (S, K:) so says AZ: (S:) [accord. to the JM, ↓ رَصَنَهُ signifies He knew it: but] the reading in the K, with teshdeed, is confirmed by the saying of Z, in the A, that رَصِّنْ لِى هٰذَا الخَبَرَ means (tropical:) Verify thou for me, or to me, this information; syn. حَقِّقْهُ; a tropical phrase. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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