The corpus record

χρονοτρῐβέω

chronotribeo

waste time, loiter

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Where it lives

Acts 1 · 0.56/10k
Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k

What it meant

χρονοτρῐβέω · chronotribeō — LSJ

waste time, loiter

waste time, loiter, Arist. Rh. 1406a37, Leonid. ap. Plu. Apophth. Lac. 2.225b, Act.Ap. 20.16, Men.Prot. p.21 D.:—Med., UPZ 39.29 (ii B. C.).

2 protract

c. acc., χ. τὸν πόλεμον protract the war, Plu. Cat.Mi. 53, Eun. Hist. p.242 D.

In the wild

χρονοτριβεῖν · chronotribein Aristotle, Rhetoric 3
χρονοτριβῆσαι · chronotribēsai New Testament, Acts 20.16 (DIORISIS sentence 697)

Where it came from

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