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χρον-ίζω , (χρόνος):
I. intr., spend time, “περὶ Αἴγυπτον” Hdt.3.61.
2. last, continue, “τὸ μὲν καλῶς ἔχον ὅπως χρονίζον εὖ μενεῖ βουλευτέον” A.Ag.847; “ἐν τῇ ὑστέρᾳ” Arist.HA523a23; χρονίζωσι ib. 537a7; “οὐ χ. τὸ ἀλγοῦν συνεχῶς ἐν τῇ σαρκί” Epicur.Sent.4, cf. Diog. Oen.58.
3. χ. δρῶν persevere in doing, Pl.Phdr.255b.
4. take time, tarry, linger, A.Ag.1356, Ch.64 (lyr.), Th.6.49, 8.16; κεχρονικότες, opp. ὑπόγυιοι τῇ ὀργῇ ὄντες, Arist.Rh.1380b5; “κεχρονικὼς ἐν Ῥώμῃ” Plb.33.16.6; “χρονίσαι κατὰ τὸ βαλανεῖον” Gal.6.417; “ἡ ναῦς καὶ τὸν χρόνον τοῦτον ὃν ἐπιστέλλω σοι χρονίζει” Hp.Ep.14: c. inf., delay to do, “χ. καταβῆναι” LXXEx.32.1 (also χ. τοῦ ποιῆσαί τι ib. Ge.34.19), Ev.Luc.12.45.
5. of ailments, to be or become chronic, Hp.Aph.3.28.
6. of wine, to be or become old, to have age, Ath. 1.33a.
II. Pass., to be prolonged or delayed, “τῶνδε πίστις οὐκ ὄκνῳ χρονίζεται” A.Th.54, cf. Ch.957(lyr.); “πολέμου χρονισθέντος” And.3.27; [“τὴν εὔνοιαν] χρονιζομένην . . φιλίαν γενέσθαι” Arist.EN 1167a11; “χ. ἐν τῷ σώματι” continue, Id.Pr.907b22; “τὰ κεχρονισμένα νοσήματα” Gal.18(2).31.
2. grow up, “χρονισθεὶς δ᾽ ἀπέδειξεν ἔθος” A.Ag.727 (lyr.).
3. to be located in time, made temporal, Simp. in Ph.716.11, Dam.Pr.405.
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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