προφασίζομαι

prophasizomaiVerbG8953

to make an excuse

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1.Dep.
2.to set up as a pretext or excuse, allege by way of excuse, plead in excuse, with accusative, (Theognis Elegiacus), etc.; with infinitive to allege as an excuse that . , (Demosthenes Orator):—;absolute to make excuses, (Thucydides):—;aor1 *προφασισθῆναι *in passive sense, to be used as a pretext, (Thucydides)
3.to allege (by way of accusation) that, (Plato Philosophus) from πρόφᾶσις

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