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τυ_ρ-εύω , (τυρός)
A.like τυρόω, make cheese, make into cheese, Com.Adesp.1173:—Pass., “τυρεύεται τὸ γάλα” Arist.HA522b2: impers., τυρεύεται cheese is made, ib.521b30.
II. metaph. (cf. “τυρόω” 1.2), mix up cunningly, contrive by trickery and intrigue, “κακόν τινι τ.” Luc.Asin.31, cf. Nic.Dam.136.6J., Adam.1.3,17: abs., concoct mischief, D.19.295:—Pass., “ἡ ἐπί τινι τυρευθεῖσα ἐπιβουλή” Ph. 2.66.
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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