κατασκευάζω
Infl. fut. -σκευάσω
1. "to equip or furnish fully", Dem.; so in Mid., Xen.:—Pass., σκηνὴ χρυσῷ κατεσκευασμένη Hdt., etc.
2. "to get ready, make, build", id=Hdt., Plat., etc.:—hence, "to prepare, arrange", δημοκρατίαν Xen.; συμπόσιον Plat., etc.: —Mid. "to make for oneself", esp. "to build" a house "and furnish" it, Thuc.: "to pack up", also opp. to ἀνασκευάζεσθαι, Xen.
3. of fraudulent transactions, "to get up, trump up", id=Xen., etc.; of persons, "to suborn", Arist.
4. "to make" so and so, with a second acc., εἰ μὴ Γοργίαν Νέστορά τινα κατασκευάζεις unless "you make" Gorgias a kind of Nestor, Plat.: also, "to represent as" so and so, κ. τινὰ πάροινον, Dem.
5. in Logic, "to construct" an argument, Arist.
6. absol. in Mid. "to make ready for doing", ὡς πολεμήσοντες Thuc.; ὡς οἰκήσων Xen.