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ἐγχωρ-έω ,
A.give room to do a thing, allow, ὁ χρὁνος οὐκ ἐγχωρεῖ, c. inf., Lys.26.6, X.Eq.12.13: abs., ὅσον ἐνεχώρεε ἡ δεκάτη so far as the money allowed her to go, Hdt.2.135; ἂν ἐγχωρῇ τὸ ὕδωρ (i.e. the water-clock), D.44.45.
b. c. acc., admit of, “κλίσιν” Arr.Tact. 11.4.
2. ἐγχωρεῖ, impers., there is time, it is possible or allowable, c. dat. pers. et inf., “ἐ. αὐτῷ εἰδέναι” Antipho 1.7, cf. 5.90, Pl. Prt.321d, X.HG2.3.16, etc.; “οἷς ἐ. ὑβρισταῖς εἶναι” Lys.24.15: also abs., ἔτι ἐ. there is yet time, Pl.Phd.116e; “οὐκέτ᾽ ἐγχωρεῖ” D.4.41; = ἐνδέχεται, Arist.APr.25b10, al.; “ἐφ᾽ ὁπόσον ἂν ἐγχωρῇ” D.H.Comp.6; “ἐγχωροῦν ἐστί” Paus.3.24.11; κατὰ τὸ ἐγχωροῦν as far as possible, Paul. Aeg.6.99.
II. pass, “εἰς ἑτέραν ὑποθήκην” BGU907.15 (iii A. D.).
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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