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ἰσχν-αίνω , fut. -α^νῶ （συν-) E.IA694 codd.: aor.
A.“ἴσχνα_να” A.Eu. 267, Ar.Ra.941; Ion. “-ηνα” Hdt.3.24, Hp.Off.13:—Med. (v. κατισχναίνω) :—Pass., aor. “ἰσχνάνθην” Id.Coac.369, 407: (ἰσχνός):—make dry, wither, ἐπεὰν τὸν νεκρὸν ἰσχνήνωσι, of a mummy, Hdt.3.24, cf. Hp.Aph.5.22, A.Eu.267, Pl.Grg.522a, etc.; “ἰ. τὸ σῶμα” Hp.Art. 33, cf. Pl.Plt.293b, Arist.Metaph.1048b27; “ἔπινε βρῦτον ἰσχναίνων χρόα” A.Fr.124.
2. reduce a swelling, Hp.Liqu.6, Aph.5.25: metaph., σφυδῶντα θυμὸν ἰ. to bring down a proud stomach, A.Pr. 382; “τὸ δεινὸν καὶ διαφθαρὲν φρενῶν ἴσχναινε” E.Or.298; τὴν τέχνην οἰδοῦσαν ἴσχνανα I reduced the swollen art (Tragedy), Ar.Ra.941.— In the metaph. sense, ἰσχαίνω is a constant v.l. (as in the compds. κατισχναίνω, συνισχναίνω); cf. ἰσχάνω fin.
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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