previous next
χραίνω , A. Th.61, etc., fut.
A.“χρα^νῶ” E.Hec.366: aor. “ἔχρα_να” A.Eu. 170 (lyr.); subj. “χράνῃ” Id.Fr.327; inf. “χρᾶναι” Poll.7.129, Porph. Chr.49:—touch slightly, ὀλιγάκις ἄστυ κἀγορᾶς χραίνων κύκλον, i.e. keeping aloof from it, E.Or.919; χ. οὐραίοισιν εὐδίαν ἁλός, of fishes, Achae.27.3: hence, smear, paint, “χ. ἢ ἀποχραίνειν” Pl.Lg. 769a, cf. Poll. l.c., Max.Tyr.40.2: besmear, anoint, τινι Nic.Al. 246:—Pass., “χραινομένην μέλιτι” AP7.622 (Antiphil.).
2. stain, “βωμὸν αἵματι μήλων” B.10.111; “πεδία δ᾽ ἀργηστὴς ἀφρὸς χραίνει σταλαγμοῖς” A.Th.61, cf. Fr.327; defile, “μιάσματι μυχὸν ἔχρανας” Id.Eu.170 (lyr.); esp. of moral pollution, “λέχη δὲ τοῦ θανόντος ἐν χεροῖν ἐμαῖν χραίνω” S.OT822, cf. E.Hipp.1266, Hec.366; “ὄμμα χ. θανασίμοισιν ἐκπνοαῖς” Id.Hipp.1438; “οὔτε φόνῳ τοὺς τῶν θεῶν βωμοὺς χραίνειν δεῖ” Porph.Abst.2.28; of words, θεῶν ὀνόματα μὴ χ. ῥᾳδίως Pl.Lg.917b:—Med., “χεῖρα χραίνεσθαι φόνῳ” S.Aj.43:—Pass., “αἱμάτων μιάσμασι χρανθεῖσα γαῖα” A.Supp.266; “καπνῷ χραίνεται πόλισμα” Id.Th.342(lyr.), cf. S.OC368; “τὰ ὄμματα μὴ κεχράνθαι τοῖς ἀσεβήμασι” Jul.Or.7.205a; “ὄψιν τε καὶ ἀκοὴν ἐχράνθημεν” Hld.10.9.
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.

The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.

hide Dictionary Entry Lookup
Use this tool to search for dictionary entries in all lexica.
Search for in
How to enter text in Greek:
hide References (14 total)
  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (14):
    • Aeschylus, Eumenides, 170
    • Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, 342
    • Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, 61
    • Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens, 266
    • Bacchylides, Epinicians, 10.111
    • Euripides, Hecuba, 366
    • Euripides, Hippolytus, 1266
    • Euripides, Hippolytus, 1438
    • Euripides, Orestes, 919
    • Plato, Laws, 769a
    • Plato, Laws, 917b
    • Sophocles, Ajax, 43
    • Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 368
    • Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, 822
hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: