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μολύνω , fut. -
A.“υ^νῶ” LXX Ca.5.3: aor. ἐμόλυ_να ib.Ge.37.31: pf. “μεμόλυγκα” Choerob.in Theod.2.68:—Pass., fut. “μολυνθήσομαι” LXX Za.14.2: aor. 1 ἐμολύνθην ib.Si.22.13: pf. μεμόλυσμαι ib. 1 Es.8.83, Epict. Ench.33, J.AJ3.6.1, “μεμόλυμμαι” LXX Is.65.4, Choerob.in Theod.2.186:—stain, sully, defile, “τὴν ὑπήνην” Ar.Eq.1286; “ἑαυτοὺς τῷ πηλῷ” Arist.HA571b18, cf. Theoc.20.10; simply, sprinkle, “ἀλεύρῳ” Sotad. Com.1.24; make a beast of, τινας (of Circe) Ar. Pl.310; defile, debauch, “παῖδα” Theoc.5.87: metaph., “χεῖρας ἁρπαγῇ” J.Vit.47:—Pass., become vile, disgrace oneself, Isoc.5.81; “μετὰ γυναικῶν” Apoc.14.4; ὥσπερ θηρίον ὕειον ἐν ἀμαθίᾳ μολύνεσθαι wallow in ignorance, Pl.R.535e; “ὁ μολυνόμενος ὑπὸ τοῦ ὄψου” Muson.Fr.18b p.101 H.; “ἡ συνείδησις αὐτῶν μολύνεται” 1 Ep.Cor.8.7.
2. stain, dye, “χιτωνίσκον αἵματι” J.AJ2.3.4:— Pass., ἔρια μεμολυσμένα ἄνθεσι ib.3.6.1.
II. v. μωλύω.
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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