προμεταβάλλω

A. alter or metabolize before, of food, Gal. 6.8:—Pass., of drugs, ὑπὸ τοῦ σώματος Id. 11.604.
II. intr., change before, S.E. M. 5.59.
Liddell, Scott & Jones
A Greek-English Lexicon, 1940
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