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μεγα^λύνω , fut.
A.“μεγαλυ^νῶ” LXX Ge.12.2, al.: aor. ἐμεγάλυνα ib.Ec.2.4, al.:—Pass., fut. -υνθήσομαι ib.Za.12.11, al.: aor. -ύνθην ib.Ma.1.5, al.: pf. part. “μεμεγαλυμμένος” Aq.Ps.143(144).12: (μέγας):—make great or powerful, exalt, “τοὺς πολεμίους” Th.5.98:—Pass., μεγαλύνεσθαι ἐκτῶν συμβαινόντων gain great glory by. . , X.HG7.1.24, cf. Ep.Phil.1.20, POxy.1592.3 (iii/iv A. D.).
II. make great by word, extol, magnify, “τὸ ὄνομά τινος” E.Ba.320; “μ. τὴν ἑαυτοῦ δύναμιν παρά τινι” Th.8.81; “ἑαυτόν” X.Ap.32; “μ. τὴν Λακεδαίμονα πρὸς Ἀθηναίους” Plu.Cim.16; “τοῦ θεοῦ τὴν δύναμιν” D.S.1.20: freq. in LXX, ll. cc.:—Med., boast oneself, “περί τινος” Sapph.35; γέννα in point of birth, A.Pr.892 (lyr.); “οὐδὲ μεγαλύνεται ἐπὶ τῷ ἔργῳ” X.Hier.2.17, cf. Oec.21.4; “ταῦτ᾽ ἀκούων ἐμεγαλύνετο” Id.Mem.3.6.3.
2. magnify, exaggerate, Th.6.28, Phld. Rh.1.173 S., Ir.p.45 W., D.C.Fr.57.81, al.
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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