The corpus record

κακίζω

kakizo

abuse, reproach

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Where it lives

Osee 1 · 2.65/10k
Menexenus 1 · 2.08/10k
Electra 1 · 1.32/10k
Machabaeorum IV 1 · 1.3/10k
Iphigenia in Aulis 1 · 1.12/10k
Phaedrus 1 · 0.6/10k
Economics 1 · 0.56/10k
Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k
History 3 · 0.2/10k
Nicomachean Ethics 1 · 0.18/10k
Republic 1 · 0.11/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

abuse, reproach, to be reproached

abuse, reproach, τινα Hdt. 3.145, D. 34.2; κ. τινὰ ὅτι οὐκ . . Th. 2.21; νουθετεῖν τε καὶ κ. Pl. R. 560a; τὴν τύχην κ. D. 18.306, cf. 21.73: abs., Epicur. Nat. 28.12, 72 G.:—Pass., to be reproached, ὑπό τινος Th. 1.105.

II make cowardly, play the coward, worsted

make cowardly, E. IA 1435:—Pass., play the coward, οὔ ἑ κακιζόμενόν γε κατέκτα Il. 24.214; καὶ μὴ κακισθῇς E. Med. 1246, cf. El. 982, Pl. Mx. 247c; κακιζόμενοι τύχῃ worsted by fortune alone, Th. 5.75.

In the wild

κακιῶν · kakiōn Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1114a (DIORISIS sentence 812)
κακιῶν · kakiōn Aristotle, Rhetoric 2
ἐκάκισεν · ekakisen Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.8 (DIORISIS sentence 1544)
κακισθεὶς · kakistheis Euripides, Electra (DIORISIS sentence 631)
κάκιζε · kakize Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 1435 (DIORISIS sentence 901)
κακίζων · kakizōn Herodotus, Histories 3.145.2 (DIORISIS sentence 3989)

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