ἀποδοκῐμ-άζω,
reject on scrutiny or trial, reject a candidate from want of qualification, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.130, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 13.10, 5th-6th c.BC: Archippus Comicus 14] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, λαχὼν ἀπεδοκιμάσθη ἄρχειν[[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Dinarchus Orator 2.10, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 25.30. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 generally, reject as unworthy or unfit, πασσόφους ἄνδρας[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 181b; ἵππον 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitum magistro” 1.13; νόμους [prev. author] “Mem.” 4.4.14; ἀργύριον 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 4.11; τὴν [τοῦ αὐλοῦ] χρῆσιν ἐκ τῶν νέων 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1341a26, compare 37 (_passive_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; [ἡ ὄρνις] ἀ. τὰ αὑτῆς[[ [prev. author] “HA” 618a17; τὴν τοιαύτην διατριβήν 4th c.BC: Timocles Comicus 8.12; τὸ ποιεῖν τι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.1.47] Refs 5th c.BC+]: with infinitive, [[ 6th c.AD: Philoponus, Joannes Philosophus “in Aristotelis Physica commentaria - Comm. in Arist. Graeca” 584.26. ] Refs 6th c.AD+]
__II conclude, judge, [[ 5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “de Principiis” 117.] Refs 5th c.AD+]