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δι^και-όω , Ion. impf.
A.“ἐδικαίευν” Hdt.1.100: fut. -ώσω Orac. ap. eund.5.92.β́, Th.5.26; “-ώσομαι” Id.3.40:aor. “ἐδικαίωσα” Id.2.71:—Pass., fut. “-ωθήσομαι” LXX Si.18.2: aor. “ἐδικαιώθην” A.Ag. 393 (lyr.): pf. “δεδικαίωμαι” LXXEz.21.13(18).
I. set right, “νόμος . . δικαιῶν τὸ βιαιότατον” Pi.Fr.169.3; “δικαιωθείς” proved, tested, A. l. c.
II. hold or deem right, claim or demand as a right, c. inf., Hdt.1.89, 133, Hp.Fract.31; “δεινά με δικαιοῖ δρᾶν” S.OT640, cf. 575; “δικαιοῦντες μὴ ἀφαιρεθῆναι αὐτήν” Th.2.41: with inf. omitted, οὕτω δ. (sc. γενέσθαι) Hdt.9.42; δίκας δ. (sc. γενέσθαι) ib.93; “ὅποι ποτὲ θεὸς δικαιοῖ” S.Ph.781; “οὐκ ὀρθῶς δ.” Th.5.26; pronounce judgement, Id.2.71: c. inf., “ἐδικαίωσεν ἀποδοῦναι ἡμᾶς τὸ κεφάλαιον” PRyl.119.14 (i A. D.); consent, “δουλεύειν” Hdt.2.172, cf. 6.86; οὐκ ἐδικαίου οὐδένα οἱ ἐσαγγεῖλαι he would not allow . . Id.3.118:—Pass., “τὸ δικαιωθὲν ὑπό τινος” that which is ordained, D.H.10.1.
III. do a man right or justice: hence,
1. chastise, punish, Hdt.1.100:—Pass., Id.3.29, Pl.Lg.934b, D.C.Fr.57.47; pass sentence on, “ὑμᾶς αὐτοὺς δικαιώσεσθε” Th.3.40.
2. Pass., also, have right done one, opp. ἀδικεῖσθαι, Arist.EN1136a18.
3. pronounce and treat as righteous, justify, vindicate, LXXEx.23.7, Je.3.11; “ἑαυτούς” Ev.Luc.16.15, etc.:—freq. in Pass., ib.7.35, etc.
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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