A.take charge of, tend.S. OT1323 (lyr.), OC750; “πόλιν” Id.Fr.683.4, E.IT1212; “νύμφην” Id.Med. 888; “νόσημα” Id.Or.883.
2. esp. attend to a corpse, bury, “ἐν ξένῃσι χερσὶ κηδευθεὶς τάλας” S.El.1141, cf.E.Rh.983; “μ᾽ ἔθαψε καὶ ἐκήδευσεν” IG14.1860: also in Prose, Plb.5.10.4, etc.; “ταφὴ κηδευθεῖσα ταῖς τῶν ἐναντίων χερσί” Demad.9, cf. Plu.Alex.56; “βασιλέων κηδευομένων” Arist.Fr.519, cf. Wilcken Chr.499 (ii/iii A.D.); “κεκηδευμένος νεκρὸς ἐν μέλιτι” J.AJ14.7.4; “εἰς ἣν [σορὸν] οὐδενὶ ἔξεσται ἕτερον πτῶμα κηδεῦσαι” CIG3028.3 (Ephesus), cf.POxy.1067.6 (iii A.D.).
3. = κηδεμονεύω, in Pass., Cod.Just.3.10.1.1.
II. contract a marriage, of the bridegroom, ally oneself in marriage, “τὸ κηδεῦσαι καθ᾽ ἑαυτὸν ἀριστεύει μακρῷ” A.Pr.890 (lyr.): c.acc. cogn., κ. λέχος marry, S.Tr.1227: c.dat.pers., ally oneself with . . , E.Hipp.634, Fr.395, D.59.81, Men.Epit.427, etc.; “κ. ὅτῳ θέλουσιν” Arist.Pol.1307a37; become the son-in-law of, Moer. p.368 P.:—in Pass., to be married, E.Ph.347 (lyr.).
2. c.acc.pers., make one's kinsman by marriage, Id.Hec.1202; also κ. τὴν θυγατέρα τινί to marry her to some one, J.AJ6.10.2: abs., οἱ κηδεύσαντες those who formed the marriage, E.Med.367.