2. metaph., to be maimed, i. e. defective, imperfect, “χωλεύει ἡ ζωὴ τῷ φαύλῳ” Plot.1.7.3; “ἂν [ἡ πόλις] τούτῳ χωλεύῃ τῷ μέρει” Lib.Or.47.10, cf. 59.33, Max.Tyr.20.6, Them.Or.6.75d; “ὁ νόμος ἐχώλευεν” Palaeph.50; “κατὰ τὴν ἰατρικήν” Gal.15.396.
II. trans., make lame, Hp.Mul.1.4, S.E.P.3.217:—Pass., to be or become lame, Luc.Sacr.6; and, generally, to be maimed or imperfect, Pl.Phdr.248b.