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κα^νον-ίζω , (κανών)
A.measure or judge by rule, Longin.16.4; measure, regulate, “τὰς πράξεις ἡδονῇ καὶ λύπῃ” Arist.EN1105a3, cf. S.E.M.7.158; “τῇ πείρᾳ τὴν ἐνέργειάν τινος” Dsc.Praef.2; “τὴν ψυχήν” Procl.Par.Ptol. 16:—Pass., πάντα κεκανόνισται πρὸς δικαιοσύνην Aristeas 168; “ἡδονῇ κανονιζόμενον” Phld.Po.5.25; τοῖσιν [τοῖς πλάνησι] “κανονίζεται αἰών” App.Anth.3.147 (Theon or Hermes).
2. prescribe rules for, c.acc., Simp.in Ph.980.23.
II. assess for taxation, PLond.5.1674.34 (Pass., vi A. D.).
III. Gramm., κανονίζεται the rule is . . , A.D. Pron.21.20: generally, Heliod. ap. Orib.46.9.4.
2. Act., conjugate, give the paradigm of a verb, Sch.E.Hec.1293:—Pass., Sch.Opp. H.1.259, etc.; to be parsed as . . , εἰς ἀόριστον Sch.E.Ph.1188.
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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