katartivzw katartivzw; future katartivsw ( L T Tr WH (Buttmann, 31 (32); but Rec. katartivsai, 1 aorist optative 3 person singular)); 1 aorist infinitive katartivsai; passive, present katartivzomai; perfect kathvrtismai; 1 aorist middle 2 person singular kathrtivsw; properly, "to render a[rtio", i. e. fit, sound, complete" (see katav, III. 2); hence, a. to mend (what has been broken or rent), to repair: tav divktua, ; (others reference these examples to next entry); equivalent to to complete, tav uJsterhvmata, . b. to fit out, equip, put in order, arrange, adjust: touv" aijw'na", the worlds, passive (so, for @ykihe, h{lion, (); selhvnhn, ()); skeuvh kathrtismevnh eij" ajpwvleian, of men whose souls God has so constituted that they cannot escape destruction (but see Meyer (edited by Weiss) in the place cited), (ploi'a, Polybius 5, 46, 10, and the like); of the mind: kathrtismevno" wJ" etc. so instructed, equipped, as etc. (cf. Buttmann, 311 (267); but others take kathrtismevno" as a circumstantial participle "when perfected shall be as (not `above') his master" (see Meyer, in the place cited); on this view the passage may be referred to the next entry), ; middle to fit or frame for oneself, prepare: ai\non, (from ; the Septuagint for ds'y:); sw'ma, . c. ethically, to strengthen, perfect, complete, make one what he ought to be: tina ( (see above)); (of one who by correction may be brought back into the right way); passive, ; tina ejn pantiv e[rgw/ ((T WH omit)) ajgaqw'/, ; kathrtismevnoi ejn tw'/ aujtw'/ noi? ktl., of those who have been restored to harmony (so pavnta eij" twujtov, Herodotus 5, 106; i{na katartisqh'/ hJ stasiazousa povli", Dionysius Halicarnassus, Antiquities 3,10), . (Compare: prokatartivzw.)*