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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

  • ὃσ ὑπὸ φιλοτιμίασ πολλοὺσ τῶν ἀπὸ παιδείασ συναθροίζων οὐ μόνον τοῖσ ἄλλοισ ἀλλὰ καὶ λόγοισ εἱστία, τὰ μὲν προβάλλων τῶν ἀξίων ζητήσεωσ, τὰ δὲ ἀνευρίσκων, οὐκ ἀβασανίστωσ οὐδ’ ἐκ τοῦ παρατυχόντοσ τὰσ ζητήσεισ ποιούμενοσ, ἀλλ’ ὡσ ἔνι μάλιστα μετὰ κριτικῆσ τινοσ καὶ Σωκρατικῆσ ἐπιστήμησ, ὡσ πάντασ θαυμάζειν τῶν ζητήσεων τὴν τήρησιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 42)
  • τί οὖν ἦν ἄτοπον, εἰ καὶ Δημοσθένει φροντὶσ εὐφωνίασ τε καὶ ἐμμελείασ ἐγένετο καὶ τοῦ μηδὲν εἰκῇ καὶ ἀβασανίστωσ τιθέναι μήτε ὄνομα μήτε νόημα; (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 2569)
  • "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)
  • εἰ γὰρ εἰμὶ πατροκτόνοσ, οὐκ ὀφείλω θνήσκειν ἀβασάνιστοσ. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 889:4)

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

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