The corpus record

ἀδο-λεσχέω

adolescheo

talk idly, prate

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Where it lives

Lovers 1 · 4.18/10k
Psalmi 9 · 2.63/10k
Siracides 2 · 1.08/10k
Economics 1 · 0.56/10k
Phaedo 1 · 0.46/10k
Theaetetus 1 · 0.44/10k
Genesis 1 · 0.33/10k
Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k
Discourses 1 · 0.13/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

ἀδο-λεσχέω · ado-lescheō — LSJ

talk idly, prate

talk idly, prate, Eup. 353, Pl. Phd. 70c, X. Oec. 11.3, etc.; ἱκανῶς ἡμῖν ἠδολεσχήσθω ἐπὶ τοῦ παρόντος Epicur. Nat. 28.13.

II talk

generally, talk, LXX Ps. 68(69).12.

III meditate

meditate, ib. Ge. 24.63, Ps. 118(119).15, al.

In the wild

ἀδολεσχῇ · adoleschēi Aristotle, Rhetoric 3
ἀδολεσχεῖν · adoleschein Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2430)
ἀδολεσχοῦντος · adoleschountos Epictetus, Discourses 1.25 (DIORISIS sentence 1326)
ἀδολεσχοῦσι · adoleschousi Plato, Lovers 132
ἀδολεσχῶ · adoleschō Plato, Phaedo 70 (DIORISIS sentence 269)
ἀδολέσχης · adoleschēs Plato, Theaetetus 195

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Where it came from

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