Sense

1. to increase, enlarge, foster, strengthen, to cherish, to rear, to man's estate, bless
2. to exalt by one's deeds, to magnify, to magnify, exaggerate
3. to increase, grow, he was waxing tall, rose high, rises high, prospers, was getting on to noon

Examples

• φασί σε, μῆτερ Ἄρηος, ὑπ ὠδίνεσσιν ἀέξειν ἠυκόμων Χαρίτων ἱερὸν χορόν: (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 195)
• θνατὸν εὖντα χρὴ διδύμους ἀέξειν γνώμας, ὅτι τ αὔριον ὄψεαι μοῦνον ἁλίου φάος, χὥτι πεντήκοντ ἔτεα ζωὰν βαθύπλουτον τελεῖς. (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 3 17:3)
• [ῶν ἀνδρων μέγαν ὄλβον ἀέξεις ἡμένα μέσαις ἀγυιαῖς Πηνειὸν ἀμφ εὐώδεα Θεσσαλία[ς μηλοτρόφου ἐν γυάλοις: (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 14b 1:2)
• ῥέα μὲν γὰρ βριάει, ῥέα δὲ βριάοντα χαλέπτει, ῥεῖα δ ἀρίζηλον μινύθει καὶ ἄδηλον ἀέξει, ῥεῖα δέ τ ἰθύνει σκολιὸν καὶ ἀγήνορα κάρφει Ζεὺς ὑψιβρεμέτης, ὃς ὑπέρτατα δώματα ναίει. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 2:3)
• ἐσθλὴ δ ἐν σταθμοῖσι σὺν Ἑρμῇ ληίδ ἀέξειν: (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 42:19)
• ἀλλ οὐ θήν τοι ἀδευκέα μῆνιν ἀέξω, πρίν περ ἀνιηθείς: (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 23:14)
• "Ὦ φίλοι, ὑμετέρῃ ἀρετῇ ἔνι θάρσος ἀέξω. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 10:19)
• τὰ φρονέων δώροισι κατατρύχω καὶ ἐδωδῇ λαούς, ὑμέτερον δὲ ἑκάστου θυμὸν ἀέξω. (Homer, Iliad, Book 17 21:9)

Similar forms

• ἀέξει (14)
• ἀέξων (8)
• ἀέξε (6)
• ἀέξω (3)
• ἀέξῃ (2)
• ἀέξοι (2)
• ἀέξ (1)
• ἀ[έξει? (1)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.