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παραδέχομαι , Ion. παραδεκ-δέκομαι , fut.
A.“-ξομαι” Pl.Tht.155c:—receive from another, “σῆμα” Il.6.178; [“Γαῖα] σταγόνας παραδεξαμένη τίκτει θνητούς” E.Fr.839.4 (anap.); “τὰ φερόμενα γράμματα” X.Cyr.8.6.17, etc.; of children, receive by inheritance, “σοφώτατα νοήματα” Pi.O.7.72; “τὴν ἀρχήν” Hdt.1.102; π. τὸν πόλεμον παρὰ τοῦ πατρός ib.18; but μάχην π. take up and continue the battle, Id.9.40; receive by way of rumour or tradition, “π. φήμην” Pl.Lg.713c; “ἀκοήν τινος” Id.Ti.23d; of magistrates or others, receive articles entered in an inventory, etc., IG12.91.21, al., PHib.1.32.4 (iii B. C.), etc.; of pupils, receive lessons from a master, “τοὺς μετὰ πόνου . . παραδεχομένους” Plu.Cat.Mi.1.
b. take over an office or function, BGU1199.3, al. (i B. C.).
2. c. inf., π. τινὶ πράττειν τι take upon oneself or engage to another to do a thing, D.58.38.
3. admit, “εἰς τὴν πόλιν” Pl.R.394d, 399d, 605b; εἰς [τὴν οἰκίαν] D.40.2; “εἰς τοὺς ἀγῶνας” Aeschin.1.178; admit to citizenship, “τῶν περιοίκων τινάς” Arist.Pol.1303a7; admit as a pupil, Pl.Euthd.304b; π. τὸ ἔθνος admit to friendly relations, Plb.38.9.8.
4. admit, allow, “τὴν ἀπαγωγήν” Lys.13.86, cf. Pl.Tht.155c, Lg.935d; “π. σκῆψιν” Hyp. Eux.7; π. τὸν λόγον accept the definition, Pl.Chrm.162e, cf. Arist. Cat.4a28; recognize as correct, agree to, “συντίμησιν” BGU1119.54 (i B. C.); “τὸ δαπανηθέν” PFay.125.10 (ii A. D.).
5. signify, “κτῆσιν” A.D. Synt.171.6.
II. in later writers the aor. παρεδέχθην takes also a pass. sense, Luc.VH2.21, Gloss.; “ἀξιῶ παραδεχθῆναί τινα εἰς τοὺς ἐφήβους” to be admitted, POxy.477.24 (ii A. D.); also, to be credited as a set-off, BGU831.15 (iii A. D.): so fut. “-δεχθήσομαι” PAmh.2.86.13 (i 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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