[Used] with a genitive.1 [Meaning] to lord it over [someone].2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Κατευμεγεθεῖν· γενικῇ. καταδυναστεύειν.
Betacode
*kateumegeqei=n: genikh=|. katadunasteu/ein.
Notes (2)
This verb is a favourite of St Cyril of Alexandria, and Theodoridis on Photius s.v. goes as far as to suggest that the passage generating the entry is from his Commentary on Nahum 28 (PG 71.828c).
1cf. entries in the Syntacticum Laurentianum and Syntacticum Gudianum.↩