Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon, μελετάω

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2.to practise an art, Lat. meditari, μαντείαν Hhymn.; μ. τοῦτο (sc. κήρυκα εἶναι) Hdt.; μ. σοφίαν Ar.; ῥητορικήν Plat.:—in attic also, to practise speaking, to con over a speech, Dem.:—Pass., τὸ ναυτικὸν οὐκ ἐνδέχεται ἐκ παρέργου μελετᾶσθαι nautical skill cannot be acquired by occasional practice, Thuc.; εὐταξία μετὰ κινδύνων μελετωμένη discipline won by practice on the battle-field, id=Thuc.

III.c. inf. to practise doing a thing, μ. τοξεύειν καὶ ἀκοντίζειν Xen.; μ. ἀποθνήσκειν Plat.

IV.absol. to practise, exercise oneself, the acc. rei being omitted, Thuc., Xen.; ἐν τῷ μὴ μελετῶντι (= μελετᾶν) by want of practice, Thuc.: —esp. to rehearse a speech, declaim, Plat., etc.

V.c. acc. pers. to exercise or train persons, Xen.

from μελέτη

Liddell and Scott. An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1889.

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