προκαταπαύω

τινος
A. cause to cease before, τινος from . . , Lib. Or. 18.99; but π. [τινὰ] ροῦ συμμέτρου before the moderate amount, Gal. 6.286.
Liddell, Scott & Jones
A Greek-English Lexicon, 1940
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