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

A.“προὐφασιζόμην” Th.1.90: Att. fut. “προφασιοῦμαι” Aeschin.3.24, later -ίσομαι Sch.Ar.Ec.1019: aor. “προὐφασισάμην” Th.5.54, X.Cyr.2.2.30, etc.; “προεφ-” D.C.59.26:—allege by way of excuse, plead in excuse, c. acc., “τὸν αὐλητήν” Thgn.941; “τὸν μῆνα” Th.5.54; “ἀεί τι” D.48.20: c. inf., allege as an excuse that . . , “ἀρρωστεῖν” Id.19.124; so “π. ὅτι οὐκ ἐπίστανται” X.Oec.20.14: c. acc. cogn., πάσας προφάσεις π. Pl.R.474e, cf. Lys.8.16: abs., make excuses, Ar. Lys.756, Th.1.90; “οὐκ ἔφη χρῆναι π. οὐδὲ διαμέλλειν” Id.6.25; “π. ὑπέρ τινος” Isoc.4.13: aor. in pass. sense, ὡς εὗρον ἅπαν . . προφασισθέν that all was used as a pretext, all was a mere pretence, Th.8.33, cf. D.C.Fr. 57.72.

II. allege (by way of accusation) that . . , Εάρδεσιν ἐπιβουλεῦσαι [ἡμᾶς] π. Pl.Mx.240a.

III. seek a quarrel against, τινι LXX4 Ki.5.7.