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ποιέω
ποιέω ποιήσω, etc. [bor Eng. poet, onomatopoeia], make, fashion. Idiomatic uses: put, arrange, form ; appoint; hold games; summon an assembly; allow, cause, bring to pass; carry out, act, do; εὖ ποιεῖν, benefit, do a service, abs. or with acc.; κακῶς ποιεῖν, injure, maltreat, abs. or with acc.; ἀγαθόν τι ποιεῖν τινα, do one a good turn; κακὰ ποιεῖν τινα, do wrongs or harm to one. Mid., often to be translated like the act., but expressing the subject’s interest in the act; also consider, with pred. acc.; so with περὶ πλείστου and περὶ παντός, for which see περί; pass., be done, be going on.

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to make, to do

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ποιέω ποιήσω, etc. [bor Eng. poet, onomatopoeia], make, fashion. Idiomatic uses: put, arrange, form ; appoint; hold games; summon an assembly; allow, cause, bring to pass; carry out, act, do; εὖ ποιεῖν, benefit, do a service, abs. or with acc.; κακῶς ποιεῖν, injure, maltreat, abs. or with acc.; ἀγαθόν τι ποιεῖν τινα, do one a good turn; κακὰ ποιεῖν τινα, do wrongs or harm to one. Mid., often to be translated like the act., but expressing the subject’s interest in the act; also consider, with pred. acc.; so with περὶ πλείστου and περὶ παντός, for which see περί; pass., be done, be going on.
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1942
URN:
urn:cite2:scaife-viewer:dictionaries.v1:anabasis-mather-1944
Key:
poie/w

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