حَجَزَةُ

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حَجَزَةُI , Present.T ـُ and ـِ Verbal.Noun حَجْزٌ and حِجَازَةٌ and حِجِّيزَى , [or the last is rather a quasi-Verbal.Noun of تَحَاجَزُوا, and, accord. to some, it is of an intensive form,] He, or it, prevented, hindered, impeded, withheld, restrained, or debarred, him, or it; syn. مَنَعَهُ, and كَفَّهُ. It is said in a trad., وَلِأَهْلِ القَتِيلِ أَنْ يَحْجُزُوا الأَدْنَى فَالأَدْنَى And it is for the family of the slain person to prevent the nearest [in relationship] and then the nearest [after him] from retaliating the slaughter. And one says, حِجِّيزَى كَانَتْ بَيْنَ القَوْمِ رِمِّيَّا ثُمَّ صَارَتْ إِلَى There was a shooting of arrows or the like [or a great shooting &c.] between the people; then they withheld themselves [or withheld themselves much] from each other: which is a prov. It is also said in another prov., مَا يُحْجَزُ فُلَانٌ فِى العِلْمِ Such a one's case [with respect to knowledge or science] cannot be concealed.
2 حَجَزَ بَيْنَهُمَا, Present.T ـُ and ـِ Verbal.Noun حَجْزٌ, He, or it, intervened as, or made, or formed, a separation, a partition, a fence, a barrier, or an obstacle, or obstruction, between them two; he separated, or parted, them; i. e., two things; or two persons or things facing, or opposite to, each other.

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