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χαυν-όω ,
A.make flaccid, relax:—Pass., to lecome so, Heliod. ap.Orib.46.22.1, Ael.NA12.17; “ἡ γῆ χ. εἰς ῥαγάδας” Gp.5.2.2.
b. Pass., of inflammation, subside, Alex.Trall.3.3.
2. χαυνοῦσα (codd.Ath.) is f.l. for χανοῦσα, opening the mouth in kissing, in Ephipp.6.5.
II. metaph., puff up, fill with conceit, E.Andr.931, Pl.Ly.210e:—Pass., become vain, Arist.VV1251b18, Plb.6.57.7; “ταῖς πράξεσι” Phld.Hom.p.55 O.; “ἐπὶ τούτοις” Plu.Caes. 29; “ὁ νοῦς ἐχαυνώθη” Babr.95.36; “κόραξ ἐπαίνῳ καρδίην ἐχαυνώθη” Id.77.8; “ὑπὸ τῆς δυνάμεως” D.C.Fr.49.3.
2. relax, weaken, “εἰρήνη χ. τὴν πολιτείαν” Lyd.Mag.3.51:—Pass., of character, Heliod. in EN149.13.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (5):
    • Euripides, Andromache, 931
    • Plato, Lysis, 210e
    • Polybius, Histories, 6.57.7
    • Plutarch, Caesar, 29
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 12.17
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