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ἐξουσ-ιάζω , fut.
A.“-άσω” Phld. (v. infr.):—exercise authority, LXXEc.8.4: c. inf., have power, Phld.Rh.1.6S., D.H.9.44.
2. exercise authority over, “τοῦ μνήματος” CIG4584 (Palestine); “τινῶν” Ev.Luc.22.25, cf. 1 Ep.Cor.7.4; “τῶν ἑαυτῆς ἕδνων” PMasp.15.170 (vi A.D.):—Med., “ἐπὶ τὸν λαόν” LXXNe.5.15; ἔν τινι ib.Ec.8.9:— Pass., to be held under authority, 1 Ep.Cor.6.12.
3. enjoy licence, Arist.EE1216a2.
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 (7):
    • New Testament, 1 Corinthians, 6.12
    • Old Testament, Ecclesiastes, 8.9
    • Old Testament, 2 Esdras, 5.15
    • New Testament, 1 Corinthians, 7.4
    • Old Testament, Ecclesiastes, 8.4
    • New Testament, Luke, 22.25
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 9.44
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