μᾰγειρ-εύω,
to be a cook, cook meat, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 6.5, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.704a, 3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “de Abstinentia - Porphyrii Opuscula” 3.18: with _accusative_, μ. τὰ ἱερεῖα 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 4.173d, compare 6th c.AD: Choricius Rhetor in “Reu.Phil.” 1.232:] Refs 4th c.BC+] —passive, τὰ μαγειρευόμενα ὄσπρια [[Scholia 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 1207. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 to be a butcher, [[ 2nd c.AD: Babrius Fabularum Scriptor 122.16. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__3 metaphorically, butcher, massacre, [[ LXX.Lam.2.21. ] LXX]