Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon

A.proposal passed by a majority of votes: esp. measure passed by a popular assembly, decree, act, A. Supp.601 (pl.), Ar.Ach.536, al.: c. gen. suasoris, the decree proposed by him, “τὸ Καννωνοῦ ψ.” Id.Ec.1090, cf. And.1.27: but τὸ Μεγαρέων ψ. the decree concerning them, Th.1.140 (more freq. τὸ περὶ Μ. ψ. ib. 139, cf. X.HG2.1.32); also “τὸ ψ. τὸ διὰ τὰς λαικαστρίας” Ar.Ach. 536; ἐγένετο ψ. μὴ ἐξεῖναι . . X.HG2.2.15; ψ. γράφειν bring in a decree, Ar.Nu.1429; ψ. ἐπιψηφίζειν put it to the vote, Aeschin.2.84; ψ. νικᾶν carry it, Id.3.68; ψ. καθαιρεῖν rescind it, Th.1.140; ἐξαλεῖψαι, ἀφελέσθαι, And.1.76, 2.24: prop. concerned with special circumstances (“οὐδὲν ἐνδέχεται ψ. εἶναι καθόλου” Arist.Pol.1292a37); opp. νόμος (general law, statute), “νόμους καὶ ψηφίσματα” Pl.Tht.173d; “ὅταν τὰ ψ. κύρια ᾖ ἀλλὰ μὴ ὁ νόμος” Arist.Pol.1292a6; “περὶ ἐνίων ἀδύνατον θέσθαι νόμον, ὥστε ψηφίσματος δεῖ” Id.EN1137b29; “ψηφισμάτων οὐδ᾽ ὁτιοῦν διαφέρουσιν οἱ νόμοι, ἀλλὰ νεώτεροι οἱ νόμοι, καθ᾽ οὓς τὰ ψ. δεῖ γράφεσθαι, τῶν ψ. αὐτῶν” D.20.92.

II. generally, decree, law, “θεῶν ψ. παλαιόν” Emp.115, cf. Ar.V.378 (lyr.), Lexap.And.1.96, LXXEs.3.7, al.