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παροξ-ύνω , pf. inf.
A.“παρωξυκέναι” Plb.31.1.3, but “παρωξυγκέναι” J. AJ11.6.7 :—Pass., pf. “παρώξυμμαι” Lys.4.8, Men.Sam.276 :—urge, spur on, stimulate, τινα X.Cyr.6.2.5, etc.; [“τινὰ] πρὸς τὰ καλά” Id.Mem. 3.3.13 ; “ὲπὶ τὸν πόλεμον” Isoc.5.3, cf. Epicur.Nat.54G.; τὰ ζεύγη πρὸς “τὸ ἔργον” Arist.HA577b31 ; τινα c. inf., Isoc. 12.37 ; “κινδυνεύειν” X. Mem.3.5.3 ; opp. ἀποτρέπω, D.21.37.
2. provoke, irritate, “πατρὸς μὴ π. φρένας” E.Alc.674 ; ξὺν κατηγορίᾳ π. Th.1.84 :—Pass., to be provoked, τινι at a thing, Id.5.99 ; “διά τινα” Id.6.56 ; “ἐπί τινι” OGI48.15 (Egypt, iii B. C.), Plb.4.7.5 ; “πρός τι” X.HG6.4.6, D.57.2 ; “πρὸς ἀλλήλους” Arist.Pol.1302a39 ; ὑπό τινος Lys.l.c. ; “κατὰ τῶν πολιτῶν” Plu. Them.31 : c. dat., Lycurg.87 (s.v.l.), D.S.10.11 : c. inf., τίς οὐκ ἂν παροξυνθείη πολεμεῖν; Isoc.5.101 :—Pass., of sicknesses, growvirulent, “π. οἱ πυρετοί” Hp.VM6.
3. make an application stronger, Gal.12.710.
II. = παροξυτονέω, Ath.11.485a :—Pass., A.D.Adv. 189.28, al., Gal.18(2).167, Ath.7.323c.
III. intr., hasten. Peripl.M.Rubr. 20.
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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