The corpus record

χλευ-άζω

chleuazo

jest, scoff

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Where it lives

Sapientia Salomonis 1 · 1.45/10k
Machabaeorum IV 1 · 1.3/10k
Machabaeorum II 1 · 0.87/10k
Acts 1 · 0.56/10k
Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3 · 0.28/10k
Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k

What it meant

χλευ-άζω · chleu-azō — LSJ

jest, scoff

jest, scoff, ἐπισκώπτων καὶ παίζων καὶ χ. Ar. Ra. 376 (lyr.); τοῖς καταγελῶσι καὶ χ. καὶ σκώπτουσι Arist. Rh. 1379a29, cf. Plb. 4.3.13, Cerc. 18 ii 5, Phld. Lib. p.29 O., etc.

2 scoff, jeer at, treat scornfully

c. acc., scoff, jeer at, treat scornfully, τινα Pl. Erx. 397d, D. 7.7, 19.23, 47.34, D.C. Fr. 109.16; ἐμαυτὴν . . λέληθα χλευάζουσʼ Men. Epit. 215; c. acc. rei, Plu. Rom. 10, etc.:—Med., Id. Brut. 45:—Pass., Epicr. 11.31 (anap.), Arist. Pr. 952b22, Plu. Sert. 13, 25, Garr. 2.504f.

In the wild

χλευάζουσιν · chleuazousin Aristotle, Rhetoric 2
χλευάζει · chleuazei Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2431)
χλευάσας · chleuasas Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 4.7 (DIORISIS sentence 3540)
χλευασθέντα · chleuasthenta Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 8.1 (DIORISIS sentence 7382)
χλευάζοντα · chleuazonta Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 10.34.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1777)
ἐχλεύαζον · echleuazon New Testament, Acts 17.32 (DIORISIS sentence 616)

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