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συμφύω

συμφύω, to make to grow together

συμφύω, later συμ-φύνω CR 33.5 (near Antioch):—
  • make to grow together, unite a wound, D.S. 32.11 (cj.), Dsc. 1.128; σ. τὰ ὁμογενῆ Arist. Mete. 378b15; σ. τοὺς ἄνωθεν ὀδόντας imagine them unite into one, Id. PA 659b24; σ. τινὰς εἰς φιλότητα unite them, Pl. Ep. 323b: but συμφῦσαι in Id. Smp. 192e is f.l. for συμφυσῆσαι.
    • II Pass., with pf. Act. συμπέφῡκα, aor. 2 συνέφῡν (3 sg. opt. συμφύη Sor. 2.89); also συνεφύην Arist. Pol. 1262b13, Thphr. CP 5.5.3, Sor. 1.36, etc.: fut. συμφυήσομαι Gp. 4.12.9:—grow together, Emp. 26.7, 95 (tm.), Pl. Smp. 191a, Ti. 76e, X. Cyr. 4.3.18, etc.; [ψυχὴ καὶ σῶμα] Pl. Phdr. 246d; of a political constitution, Plb. 4.32.9.
      • 2 grow together, unite, as a wound, Hp. Aph. 6.24, al.; of bones, Id. Art. 14, Sor. 2.57; of the mouth of the womb and other passages, Arist. GA 773a16, cf. 747a12; τὰ χείλη καὶ τὰ βλέφαρα καὶ τῶν δακτύλων τὰ μεταξὺ πολλάκις ἑλκωθέντα συνέφυ, κατὰ φύσιν δὲ ἔχοντα . . οὐ συμφύεται διὰ λειότητα Diocl. Fr. 26; διὰ τί οἱ αἰδούμενοι τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς συμπεφύκασι; Alex.Aphr. Pr. 1.70.
      • 3 unite with, οὐ τῷ τυχόντι συμφύεται τὸ τυχόν Arist. Sens. 438b1; συμπεφυκυῖαι ἰδέαι εἰς ἕν, e.g. Chimaera, etc., Pl. R. 588c; εἰς ταὐτὸν συμφύεσθαι ib. 503b; σ. πρός τι Plu. Fac.lun. 2.924e.
      • 4 become assimilated, become natural, Arist. EN 1147a22.

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