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εὐσχήμ-ων , ον, gen. ονος, (σχῆμα)
A.elegant in figure, mien and bearing, graceful, opp. ἀσχήμων, Pl.R.413e, al.; “ἀλεκτρυών” Cratin. 108; τὰ εὐ. ἡμῶν (sc. μόρια) 1 Ep.Cor.12.24: Comp. -έστερος more respectable, Pl.R.554e: Sup. -έστατοι“, πονεῖν ἵπποι” X.Eq.11.12.
2. in bad sense, with an outside show of goodness, specious in behaviour, “εἴς τινα” E.Med.584.
II. of things, decent, becoming, “λόγοι” Id.Hipp. 490, D.60.9; “πρᾶγμα οὐδαμῶς εὔσχημον λέγειν” Aeschin.3.162; “λέγειν εὐσχήμονα” Arist.EN1128a7; τὸ εὔσχημον decorum, Pl.R.401c, Lg. 797b. Adv. -μόνως with grace and dignity, like a gentleman, Ar.V. 1210, X.Cyr.1.3.8, Arist.EN1101a1; “ζῆν” Phld.Herc.1251.18: Comp -έστερον“, ἔχειν” Pl.Epin.981a; “τι φέρειν” D.60.35: Sup. -έστατα IG 22.1034.11.
2. later also, noble, honourable, in rank (condemned by Phryn.309), Ev.Marc.15.43, Act.Ap.13.50, J.Vit.9, Vett.Val.66.7, al.; ἡ εὐ. the noble lady, PFlor.16.20 (iii A.D.).
b. title of a village magistrate, in pl., “εὐ. κώμης” BGU147 (ii/iii A.D.): sg., ἡ οἰκία τοῦ εὐ. PRyl.236.15 (iii A.D.).
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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