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χερνίπτομαι , fut.
A.“-ψομαι” E.IT622: Med.: (χείρ, νίζω):—wash one's hands with holy water, esp. before sacrifice, “χερνίψαντο δ᾽ ἔπειτα” Il.1.449; “αὐτός γε χερνίπτου” Ar.Pax961; “ἐχερνίψατο ἐκ τῆς ἱερᾶς χέρνιβος” Lys.6.52.
2. sprinkle with holy water, purify or dedicate thereby, χαίτην E.l.c.
II. Act. χερνίπτω , sacrifice, only Lyc.184:—aor. Pass. “χερνιφθείς” dedicated, AP6.156 (Theodorid.).
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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    • Aristophanes, Peace, 961
    • Euripides, Iphigeneia in Taurus, 622
    • Lysias, Against Andocides, 52
    • Homer, Iliad, 1.449
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