κατασκευάζω fut. -σκευάσω to equip or furnish fully, Dem.; so in Mid., Xen.:—Pass., σκηνὴ χρυσῷ κατεσκευασμένη Hdt., etc. to get ready, make, build, Hdt., Plat., etc.:—hence, to prepare, arrange, δημοκρατίαν Xen.; συμπόσιον Plat., etc.: —Mid. to make for oneself, esp. to build a house and furnish it, Thuc.: to pack up, also opp. to ἀνασκευάζεσθαι, Xen. of fraudulent transactions, to get up, trump up, Xen., etc.; of persons, to suborn, Arist. to make so and so, with a second acc., εἰ μὴ Γοργίαν Νέστορά τινα κατασκευάζεις unless you make Gorgias a kind of Nestor, Plat.: also, to represent as so and so, κ. τινὰ πάροινον, Dem. in Logic, to construct an argument, Arist. absol. in Mid. to make ready for doing, ὡς πολεμήσοντες Thuc.; ὡς οἰκήσων Xen.