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ἀβασάνιστος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀβασάνιστος ἀβασάνιστη ἀβασάνιστον

Structure: ἀβασανιστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: basani/zw

Sense

  1. not examined by torture, untortured, unexamined, without examination

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • "ὧν ἂν περὶ ἑκάστου τεκμήριον ἀπαιτῇσ, παντὸσ ἁπτόμενοσ ἱεροῦ καὶ παντὶ βωμῷ σοφιστικὴν ἐπάγων πεῖραν, οὐδέν’ ἀσυκοφάντητον οὐδ’ ἀβασάνιστον ἀπολείψεισ πόρρω γὰρ οὐκ ἄπειμι τὴν δ’ Ἀφροδίτην οὐχ ὁρᾷσ ὅση θεόσ; (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 13 2:9)
  • τὸν ἐν γέλωτι καὶ ἀκράτῳ καὶ σκώμμασι καὶ παιδιαῖσ ἔλεγχον εἰσ ὀφρῦν αἴρουσιν ἤδη τὸ πρᾶγμα καὶ κολακεύουσιν ἐσκυθρωπακότεσ καὶ ψόγον τινὰ καὶ νουθεσίαν παραμιγνύουσι, φέρε μηδὲ τοῦτο παραλίπωμεν ἀβασάνιστον. (Plutarch, Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur, chapter, section 17 3:1)
  • πότερον ὅτι βάσανόσ τισ ἐλευθέρων ὁ ὁρ́κοσ ἐστί, δεῖ δ’ ἀβασάνιστον εἶναι καὶ τὸ σῶμα καὶ τὴν ψυχὴν τοῦ ἱερέωσ; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 442)
  • πότερον ὅτι βάσανόσ τισ ἐλευθέρων ὁ ὁρ́κοσ ἐστί, δεῖ δ’ ἀβασάνιστον εἶναι καὶ τὸ σῶμα καὶ τὴν ψυχὴν τοῦ ἱερέωσ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 441)
  • ἀβασάνιστον καταλιπεῖν, ἀλλὰ τοὺσ ἐπιλογισμούσ, οἷσ αὐτὸσ προσεθέμην, εἰσ μέσον ὑπευθύνουσ τοῖσ βουληθεῖσιν ἐσομένουσ ἐξενεγκεῖν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 74 5:1)

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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