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διακαίω ,
A.burn through, heat to excess, Hdt.2.26: freq. in pf. part. Pass., “γῆ διάθερμος καὶ διακεκαυμένη” Arist.Pr.906b13, cf. Mete.345a17; “ἀὴρ δ.” Thphr.Vent.21; “δ. εἰς τὸ μελάντατον” Luc.Herc.1; ἡ δ. ζώνη the torrid zone, Str.2.1.13, al.; “κύκλος” Placit.2.30.1; “ὥρα ἔτους” Ar.Did.Epit.26; δ. ὑπ. ὀργῆς πρόσωπον flushed with anger, J.AJ11.6.9.
2. inflame, “ἄνεμοι δ. τὰς κόρας” Gp.2.26.2: metaph., inflame, excite, “τινά” Plu. Thes.6, al.: c. acc. cogn., δ. φιλοτιμίαν Theopomp. Hist. 300:—Pass., Luc.Cal.14.
3. in Surgery, brand, apply cautery across or throughout, “ἐς τὸ πέρην” Hp.Art.11; πέρην ib.40 (Pass.); “καυτῆρι τὸ πρόσωπον” GP.17.20.4.
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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